Lucent Technologies 6.1 manual Prior Releases Features Enhancements, Private Networks

MERLIN LEGENDCommunications System Release 6.1	Issue 1
System Planning 555-661-112	August 1998
Prior Releases: Features and Enhancements
Release 6.0 Enhancements (February, 1998)	Page xvii

Prior Releases: Features and

Enhancements

Release 6.0 Enhancements	0
(February, 1998)

Release 6.0 includes all Release 5.0 functionality, plus the enhancements listed below.

Private Networks 0

In Hybrid/PBX mode systems only, MERLIN LEGEND Communications Systems can be networked with one another or with DEFINITY®Enterprise Communications Server (ECS) and ProLogix™ Communications Systems in private networks. In previous releases, this functionality is available using tie lines, but users handle calls between networked switches as outside calls. In this release, dialing the pool access code is not necessary for a call going from one networked switch to another. Also, delay-start tie trunks or T1 trunks administered as PRI can act as tandem trunks to connect networked systems.

Available for Hybrid/PBX mode systems, the private network features of the MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.0 provide the following advantages for geographically dispersed organizational sites:

■Intersystem Calling. In a private network, users on one local system can call extensions on other systems in the network. Release 6.0 can support 2-, 3-, 4-, or 5-digit dial plans. They dial these extensions as inside calls. To implement this function, the system manager programs the extension ranges of remote networked switches to create a non-local dial plan. This programming does not actually affect numbering on the remote system. To correctly set up systems for transparent calling among non-local dial plan extensions, the system manager assigns networking tie and/or PRI tandem trunks to pools. Then he or she programs as many as 20 patterns,