Lucent Technologies 8.2

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2

Administrator’s Guide

555-233-506 Issue 1

April 2000

Managing multimedia calling

275Enhanced Mode MM complex

Switching between Basic and Enhanced modes

There may exist occasions when an Enhanced mode complex needs to switch to

Basic mode operation temporarily. One example is when a user wishes to make a

direct point to point multimedia call originated directly from the H.320 DVC.

Basic mode operation allows this functionality at the expense of losing

multimedia call handling capabilities (i . e. hold/xfer/conf). To switch from

Enhanced mode to Basic mode, the station may either select a mm-basic feature

button or dial the mm-basic feature access code. Both of these actions are valid

only if the Enhanced mode station has no multimedia calls active.

When in Basic mode, the status lamp for the mm-basic button, if present, will be

on solid. The mm-basic feature button acts as a toggle. If the status lamp is on,

when the button is selected, the lamp will go off and th e station will return to

Enhanced mode. The mm-enhanced feature access code will set the state of the

station back to Enhanced. Switching to Enhanced mode is only valid if the

associated H.320 DVC system is idle.

NOTE:

Toggling between Basic and Enhanced mode changes the station’s

administered Multimedia mode. When in Basic mode this field on the

station form will show basic. When in Enhanced mode this field on the

station form will show enhanced. The current station Multimedia mode

will be saved to translation when a save translation command is

executed.

Forwarding of voice and multimedia calls

The Enhanced multimedia mode complex voice station may use the existing

standard call forwarding mechanisms to activate forwarding for voice calls. If the

forwarding destination is on the same switch then this will also forward

multimedia calls as multimedia calls to the d estination. If the forwarding

destination is off switch, multimedia calls will fo rward off switch as voice only

calls. This is appropriate when the user will be at a location that is not able to

receive multimedia calls.

To forward multimedia calls off switch as multimedia calls, the user must activate

multimedia call forwarding. This may be done w ith an mm-cfwd button or feature

access code. The user may also activate standard voice call forwarding and select

the mm-call button prior to entering the forwarding address.

Coverage

Multimedia calls to an Enhanced mode complex are subject to the same coverage

criteria as voice calls and follow the coverage path administered for the voice

station of the Enhanced multimedia mode complex.