Lucent Technologies 6.1 manual Data Communications

MERLIN LEGENDCommunications System Release 6.1	Issue 1
System Planning 555-661-112	August 1998

5 Data Communications

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In addition to voice communications capabilities, the system also supports data and video communications to enable users to send or receive data, or establish group or personal video conferences.

NOTE:

To configure the switch to support data communications across a private network, see the Network Reference for information.

Planning for data and video communications consists of the following tasks:

1.Planning how the data and/or video equipment connects to extension jacks on the control unit. This depends on the type of data stations or video systems.

2.Creating modem/ISDN terminal adapter pools (pairs of modems and ISDN terminal adapters) to enable calls between the two types of data stations: modem data stations and ISDN terminal adapter data stations.

3.Assigning lines/trunks to data stations and video systems.

4.Assigning features to data stations.

5.Creating data hunt groups (DHGs), that is, data calling groups, if there are modem/ISDN terminal adapter pools with more than one data communications equipment pair (a modem and an ISDN terminal adapter), or to designate a group of either modems or ISDN terminal adapters to receive calls to communicate with a local host computer or local area network (LAN) workstation.

NOTE:

Modem/ISDN terminal adapter pools are not described in this book. For information see application note, MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Modem Pooling.