Lucent Technologies 5 manual Release 4.2 Enhancements

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0		Issue 1
System Manager’s Guide 555-650-118		June 1997
New Features and Enhancements
Release 4.2 Enhancements		Page xiii
	Release 4.2 Enhancements	0

Release 4.2 includes all Release 4.1 functionality, plus the enhancements listed below. There are no hardware changes for Release 4.2.

Additional Network Switch and Services Options
for ISDN Primary Rate Interface (PRI)	0

Release 4.2 of the system supports connectivity to MCI® or local exchange carrier (LEC) PRI services and to the following central office switch types (in addition to the 4ESS™ and 5ESS® switch types that carry for AT&T® Switched Network services):

■NORTEL® DMS™-100 BCS 36 for local exchange carrier services

■NORTEL DMS-250 generic MCI07 serving the MCI network

■Digital Switch Corporation DEX600E generic 500-39.30 serving the MCI network

Beginning with Release 4.2, the following MCI PRI and PRI local exchange carrier (LEC) services (along with AT&T Switched Network Services) can be provided to users of the MERLIN LEGEND Communications System:

■MCI Toll Services for DMS-250 or DEX600E switch type:

—MCI Prism® service for domestic outgoing long-distance and international voice calls; for domestic outgoing 56-kbps restricted,

64-kbps unrestricted, and 64-kbps restricted circuit-switched data calls

—MCI VNet® service for incoming and outgoing domestic and voice calls; for 56-kbps restricted, 64-kbps restricted, and 64-kbps unrestricted circuit-switched data calls

—MCI 800 for domestic, toll-free, incoming voice calls

—MCI 900 service numbers

■LEC services for DMS-100 switch types:

—DMS Virtual Private Network service for calls between the MERLIN LEGEND Communications System and another communications system (such as another MERLIN LEGEND Communications System)

—DMS INWATS (Inward Wide Area Telephone Service) for domestic

toll-free incoming voice calls

—DMS OUTWATS (Outward Wide Area Telephone Service) for domestic outgoing long-distance voice calls

—DMS FX (foreign exchange) to provide local call rating for calls from the local exchange to the area serviced by the foreign exchange