Lucent Technologies 8.2

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2

Administrator’s Guide

555-233-506 Issue 1

April 2000

Managing multimedia calling

237Multimedia Call Handling

Planning for MMCH

The following are some of the tasks you perform in planning and administering

MMCH.

Planning the system

This is a list of questions to help you use DEFINITY ECS for multimedia.

■How many MMCH users are you going to have?

■How many multimedia calls do you expect to have at any given time?

With the information above you can determine ho w many Voice Conditioner (VC)

and Multimedia Interface (MMI) circuit packs you need.

■Will users need data collaboration capabilities ? If so, you ne ed to i nstall the

Expansion Service Module (ESM).

■Which stations, hunt groups or vectors need early answer?

■Do you have ISDN-PRI trunks? It is possible to use separate DS1 trunks

for data, but ISDN-PRI trunks are recommended.

Installation checklist

1. Purchase MMCH right-to-use.

2. Lucent Technologies — enable MMCH on System Parameters

Customer-Options screen.

3. Administer default multimedia outgoing trunk parameter selection on the

Feature-Related System-Parameters Features screen.

4. Administer MMCH related feature access codes on the Feature Access

Code screen.

5. Install and administer hardware:

■Install MMIs, VCs and ESM.

■Administer ESM to ECS connection — DS1 Circuit Pack and

Signaling Group screens.

■Establish maintenance parameters — Maintenance-Related System

Parameters form.