DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
Administrator’s Guide
555-233-506 Issue 1
April 2000
Features and technical reference
1343Group paging
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Related topics
Refer to ‘‘Route Pattern’’ on page 865 for information on how to set up route
patterns.
Group paging
Group paging allows users to make an announcement over a group of digital
speakerphones.
■You can create up to 32 paging groups on one DEFINITY ECS.
■Each group can have up to 32 extensions in it.
■It’s OK to assign the same extension to different groups.
Brief description
You, the switch administrator, create paging groups and assign extensions as
members to the appropriate groups. Each group is assigned its own identifying
extension, and users page the group by dialing this extension. When a user dials
the group’s extension, the switch activates the speakers on all the phones in the
group. Speakerphone paging is one-way communication: group members hear th e
person placing the page but cannot respond directly.
Restrictions
Pages aren’t always heard on every phone in a group. An extension does not
transmit a group page if it has an active or ringing call or if it is off-hook.
Listeners may drop a page by disconnecting. Refer to ‘‘Interactions’’ on page
1344 for features that block group pages.
Legend
BCC Type DCP/DM
I Mode
0 Voice-Grade Data and Voice None
1 56 kbps Data (Mode 1) 1
2 64 kbps Data (Mode 2) 2
3 64 kbps Data (Mode 3) 3
4 64 kbps Data (Mode 0) 0