Lucent Technologies 6.1 manual Merlin LEGENDCommunications System Release

MERLIN LEGENDCommunications System Release 6.1	Issue 1
System Planning 555-661-112	August 1998
4 Features
System Features	Page 4-70

5.If the system must absorb certain leading digits dialed by users to place calls on a particular pool, enter a number in the same row as the pool number, in the Absorb column.

Use the number 0 if you do not want absorption. Assign a value of 1 through 11 according to the number of digits you want absorbed, starting with the first digit dialed.

Example: If a company has FX lines/trunks for the 686 exchange in the 901 area code and wants to allow people to dial those calls the same way they dial toll calls to other area codes, an absorption number of 4 is assigned to the FX trunk pool, Pool 893. The completed form for the 6-Digit Table that routes calls to the FX trunk pool is shown in Figure 4–6.

After ARS is programmed, people in the company illustrated in Figure 4–6 dial

￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿-;;;;to make these calls. The system absorbs the leading 1 and the area code and dials only the seven-digit number to place these calls on one of the FX lines/trunks.