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 7.0 Enhancements (April 1999)	2

■Priority Call Queuing

Priority call queuing provides the ability to:

—Place some callers ahead of others who are waiting for the same agent group.

—Give key clients priority over others.

—Automatically increase the number of agents answering calls during busy times, while continuing to offer callers the choice to leave a message instead of waiting.

—Keep costs down by handling toll free calls (calls arriving on 800 and 888 lines) before processing calls on local lines.

Priority call queuing is accomplished in Release 7.0 by allowing you to define a supportive relationship between calling groups. Calls that arrive in one calling group can be processed by another calling group when no one from the first calling group is available to answer the call. Through system programming, a calling group can be assigned a priority level between 1 (highest priority) and 32 (lowest priority) and then designated as a support group for another group.

■Calling Party Name on Caller ID

Release 7.0 continues to support Calling Party Number and adds a new functionality for Calling Party Name. By programming a button on the telephone or with a feature code through centralized programming, users are able to toggle between displaying the caller’s telephone number or the caller’s name. In order to use this feature, users must subscribe to caller identification from their local exchange carrier (LEC).

Calling Party Name can be 15 characters in length for MLX telephones as well as for ETR and MLS telephones. Calling Party Name is not recorded on SMDR reports. In addition, neither Calling Party Name nor Calling Party Number are displayed on analog multiline telephones.

This feature requires loop-start (LS) trunks. The existing LS-ID delay feature must be programmed for each line, as well. This prevents Calling Party Number and Name information from being lost when a call is answered too quickly.

Release 7.0 software also supports the Caller ID capability of the 408 GS/LS-ID-MLX module. Although previously orderable, the Caller ID capability of this module could not be used until Release 7.0 software became available.