Lucent Technologies 8.2

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2

Administrator’s Guide

555-233-506 Issue 1

April 2000

Features and technical reference

1586Whisper paging

■Data Privacy — Permanent or Temporary

Any station that has Data Privacy activated cannot make a whisper page.

■Expert Agent Selection

You can’t make a whisper page by dialing an agent’s Logical Agent ID.

Pages must be made to a physical extension.

■Go to Cover

If you make a whisper page and then press your Go To Cover button while

the page is in progress, the Go To Cover button doe sn’ t w ork . The opposi te

is true as well. If you activate Go to Cover and the n press the whisper page

activation button, you aren’t able to make a whisper page.

■Last Number Dialed

When you make a whisper page, it’s tracked as the last number dialed.

■QSIG

This feature does not operate in a QSIG environment.

■Remote access

You can’t make a whisper page by remote access. Both the paging party

and paged party must be on the same switch or the attempt is denied.

■Tenant Partitioning

Whisper paging is permitted across tenant partitions if the assigned cla sse s

of restriction allow for intercom calling between members of different

partitions. This feature is especially useful to attendants who serve multiple

partitions.

NOTE:

It is important for system administrators to ensure that this feature is

managed appropriately in systems with tenant partitioning. Some

tenants may not want other tenants to interrupt their calls.

■Transfer

A call cannot be transferred during an active whisper page.

■Vector Directory Number (VDN)

You can’t make a whisper page to a VDN. Pages must be made to a

physical extension.