Managing phones
37Adding new phones
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DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
Administrator’s Guide
555-233-506 Issue 1
April 2000
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Managing phones
This section explains how to add, swap, upgrade, and remove the phones on your
system. This section also gives you tips for customizing your own phone (for
system administration) so it has the feature buttons you need for many
administration and troubleshooting tasks.
Note that this section does not tell you how to administer an attendant console. If
you need to add or modify an attendant console, refer to ‘‘Managing your
attendant consoles’’ on page 91.

Adding new phones

When you are asked to add a new phone to the phone system, what do you do
first? To connect a new phone you need to do three things:
■find an available port
■wire the port to the cross-connect field or termination closet
■tell the telephone system what you’re doing
Before you can determine which port to use for the new phone, you need to
determine what type of phone you are installing, what ports are available, and
where you want to install the phone.