ATT DEFINITY Communications System Generic 3 Instructions Manual

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Administration Without Hardware 
(AWOH)
Feature Availability
Administration Without Hardware is available with all Generic 3 releases.
Description
Provides the ability to administer “Station”  forms without specifying a port 
location. Such stations are referred to as 
p hantom and do not generate alarms 
and errors when the station is translated b ut not yet installed. The Ad ministration 
Without Hardware (AWOH) feature works for...

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Terminal Translation feature can be used. For more information see 
the Terminal Translation (with Security Measures) feature.
Considerations
The primary use of the Ad ministration Without Hardware (AWOH) feature is to 
streamline system initializations, major a d ditions, and rearrangement/changes by 
allowing voice terminal translations to be entered before the actual ports are 
assigned.  Port assignments can be done at a later time, as required.
For G3i...

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nACD 
A voice terminal user may transfer an ACD call to a bridged appearance 
of an AWOH station, put the call on hold, and/or receive another call. A 
bridged appearance of an AWOH extension cannot be logged into an 
ACD split and cannot receive calls directed to a hunt group to which it 
belongs.
nAutomatic Callback
Attempting automatic callback to any station administered without 
hardware translation sends an intercept tone to the...

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nCall Park
A call to a station administered without hardware translation can only be 
parked if the primary extension of that station is a b rid ged call appearance 
on a normal station. When a call is parked from a bridged call 
appearance, it is parked on the p rimary extension assigned to the bridged 
call appearance.
nCall Waiting Termination
Call waiting termination can be administered on a single-line terminal 
administered without hardware...

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nLeave Word Calling
A station ad ministered without hardware can be left a leave word calling 
message.
A leave word calling message left by a user on a bridged call  appearance 
leaves a message for the called party to call the p rimary extension number 
assigned to the bridged call appearance. When  a user calls a primary 
extension and activates Leave Word Calling, the message is left for the 
primary extension even if the call was...

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nAttendant Group
If all attendants of the group are administered without hardware, the c aller 
receives ringback tone indefinitely for all calls ma de internally. Attendants 
administered without hardware translation will behave the same as 
stations without hard ware in group interactions.
Resp onses are similar for these features:
— Centralized Attendant Service  (CAS)
— Inter-PBX Attendant Service (IAS)
— Attendant Call Waiting  (c annot  be activated...

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Data Terminal Interactions
Below are descriptions of how active data terminal features interact with the 
Ad ministration Without Hardware (AWOH) feature
nData Call Setu p
Three methods are provid e d to set up a data call:
— Data Terminal Dialing 
— An attempt to use keyboard dialing to 
terminate a call to a data endpoint administered without hardware 
translation causes a BUSY message on the screen, indicating that 
the terminal is in...

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nBrid ged Call Ap pearance
If a station has a bridged call appearance of another station, which is 
off-hook, the station a dministered with the bridged call appearance can 
disassociate at any time and not disrupt the call in progress on the bridge.
If a station with a bridged appearance of a normal station associates itself 
while the extension for the brid ged a p pearance is on a call, the station 
associating itself can join the call after it has...

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If a call is ongoing to any extension in the group, any memb er of the group 
can disassociate. Any member of the group can associate. That member 
will not join the group for the call that is currently in progress, b ut is 
available for all subsequent calls to the group.
nCPE Alarm
If a station that has been administered with a CPE alarm enters the system 
translation while an alarm is active, then the newly associated station 
receives...

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group. This means that a member cannot join the other members of an 
incoming call for one that is taking place during the binding of the station 
to the port location. The member can join in all subsequent calls to the 
group.
nTransfer
After a connection has been made from first to third party, the second 
party, the one who performe d the transfer, can be disassociated. Parties 
one and three are treated as a station-to-station call.
nAttendant
Because...