Lucent Technologies 6.1 manual Obtaining a Floor Plan

MERLIN LEGENDCommunications System Release 6.1			Issue 1
System Planning 555-661-112			August 1998
1 Before You Begin
	Obtaining a Floor Plan		Page 1-13
	Obtaining a Floor Plan	1

You may want to use a floor plan to make planning more manageable and to ensure that the correct telephone equipment is assigned to each employee. If the customer does not already have a floor plan showing the location of system equipment, you should create one. Use the symbols shown in Figure 1–2 and the following instructions:

1.Use a large sheet of paper and sketch the office layout. The location of office walls and other partitions is important when features are assigned to telephones that must be within hearing range of each other. For example, pickup group members must be able to hear each others’ telephones ringing.

2.Indicate the location of each employee’s telephone, other locations that will have a telephone (such as a conference room), and the locations of data terminals, PCs, and host computers.

3.Indicate the type of telephone at each location, using an abbreviation that includes the number of programmable buttons. For example, write MLX-10at 10-button MLX telephones, MLX-20Lat 20-button MLX display telephones, BIS-34at 34-button analog multiline telephones, and so on.

4.Indicate the type of adjunct at each location. For example, write FAX, ana. modem (analog modem), headset, or other type of adjunct beneath the symbol.

5.Indicate any additional equipment, such as a Station Message Detail Recording (SMDR) printer, Call Accounting System device, equipment required for off-site telephones, and so on.

6.Indicate the locations where AC power is available and/or required, for example, for a Multi-Function Module (MFM), a console with two Direct Station Selectors (DSSs), or an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) terminal adapter (such as the Ascend Pipeline™ 25 or 50).

The floor plan does not need to be elaborate or to scale. Keep the floor plan on hand. Refer to it during planning and complete it (by filling in extension numbers) when you get to Numbering the System in Chapter 2.