Lucent Technologies 555-670-116 manual MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release, Issue, April

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 7.0	Issue 1
Pocket Reference 555-670-116	April 1999
Release 6.0 Enhancements (February 1998)	8

—Toll Savings. Private networked trunks may allow you to realize significant cost savings on long-distance and toll calls by performing tandem switching in the following two ways:

—Callers on a local system, or individuals dialing in to remote access at a local system, can reach the public switched telephone network (PSTN) via outside trunks connected to other systems in a private network, avoiding toll charges or decreasing the cost of toll calls. No special dialing is required. For example, an organization might have a main office in Boston and a subsidiary office in New Jersey connected by networked private tandem trunks between two systems. A user in the New Jersey office who wishes to make an outside call to the 617 area code (Boston) can do so through a line/trunk connected to the system in Boston. For example, he or she might dial, 916175551211. The local ARS tables would route this call over the private networked trunks and use the ARS tables of the remote system in Boston to route this call. The system managers at each end of a private network set up ARS and Remote Access features to implement this functionality.

—In addition, local organizations or incoming DID calls use private networked trunks to make intersystem calls between networked systems, which may be geographically distant from one another, also resulting in toll savings.

—Service Cost Savings. In addition to toll call savings, there are two ways that organizations can save on service costs incurred from telecommunications providers that provide public switched telephone network access:

—You order a point to point T1 facility from a service provider, then use system programming to set it up for PRI signalling. As necessary, a service provider can provide amplification on the T1 facility, but does not supply switching services.

—You can tailor your use of PRI B-channels with drop-and- insert equipment that allows fractional use of B-channels for dedicated data/video communications between systems at speeds greater than 64 kbps per channel or 128 kbps for 2B data, while keeping the remaining B- channels available for PRI voice traffic. The PRI D-channel must remain active.

—You can tailor use of T1 channels to support both T1- emulated tandem tie service and T1 Switched 56 service for data communications at 56 kbps per channel, allowing 2B data transfers at 112 kbps. You can also use drop-and- insert equipment to provide fractional T1 use.

—Voice Mail and Auto Attendant. Networked systems (prior to Release 6.1) should have their own local voice mail and/or auto attendant applications as well as their own external alerts and Music-On-Hold sources. A single Auto Attendant, however, can transfer calls throughout the network. It can answer only those calls that arrive on the PSTN facilities of the system where it is connected.