Nortel Networks P0992639 01 manual Norstar Companion basics

Norstar Companion basics

Norstar Companion provides mobility in the workplace. With Companion, your telephone can go with you, allowing you to make and receive calls while on the move. Calls that used to ring just at your desk can also appear and ring at your portable. This is called twinning. Twinning works provided that the portable is assigned the desk telephone DN as an Answer DN. Wireless twinning is improved by assigning the same answer key to your Norstar desk telephone and to your wireless portable telephone.

The portable telephones can access most Norstar business features such as call forward, call transfer, conferencing, and voice mail. Companion on Norstar consists of four main components:

ICS and Norstar XC software - Norstar MICS-XC software manages the telephone traffic between Companion base stations and portable telephones. Base stations are connected to the ICS in the same way as Norstar sets. Companion portable telephones are registered on the system and do not take up any ports on the system. Up to 60 portable telephones and up to 32 base stations (32 cells) can be connected to the system.

Companion base stations — Base stations are positioned throughout the coverage area to send and receive calls between the portable telephones and the ICS. The base stations use advanced digital radio technology and support handoff and roaming within the coverage area which can be up to 160,000 square meters (three million square feet) when using the maximum number of base stations.

P0992639 01 Modular ICS Companion Installer Guide