Lucent Technologies 8.2

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2

Administrator’s Guide

555-233-506 Issue 1

April 2000

Features and technical reference

1378Intercom

Phones

■You can assign any type of phone to an intercom group. However, only

multiappearance phones can make and receive intercom calls. Single-line

phones can only receive intercom calls. Multiappearance phones must hav e

at least one open or available call appearance to receive intercom calls.

■Phones receiving an intercom call make a unique alerting sound. If the

phone has an intercom button with a status lamp, the lamp flashes.

■You can administer an automatic intercom connection between 2 phones

even if their classes of restriction don’t allow other calls between them.

Interactions

■Bridged Appearances

Bridged appearances can’t receive intercom calls.

■Call Coverage

Intercom calls do not follow a coverage pathunless the caller activates Go

To Co ver.

■Call Forwarding

Intercom calls cannot be forwarded off-net.

■Call Pickup/Directed Call Pickup

Intercom calls are not included in the call pickup alerting count.

■Data Privacy and Data Restriction

Extensions with either of these features active cannot originate intercom

calls.