Lucent Technologies Definity Audix System Digital Networking Guide

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xi Conventions Used 
nChapter 10, ‘‘Ong oing  Ad ministration’’
After you initially administer DEFINITY AUDIX d ig ital networking and  
p erform ac c ep tanc e tests, you will need  to p erform ong oing  
ad ministration tasks. This c hap ter c ontains p roc ed ures for up d ating  
mac hine and  sub sc rib er information.
nChapter 11, ‘‘Networking  Rep orts’’
The DEFINITY AUDIX system g athers information on...

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xii Trademarks and Service Marks 
For examp le, an error messag e inc lud ing  one of your filenames ap p ears 
as:
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filename is formatted incorrectly
Trademarks and Service Marks
The following trad emarked  p rod uc ts may b e mentioned  in this doc ument:
Related Documentation
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Introduction to Digital Networking 
1-1 What Is Networking? 
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Introduction to Digital Networking
This c hapter p rovid es an introd uc tion to the b asic s of DEFINITY AUDIX d ig ital 
networking  and  d esc rib es some of the d igital networking features. The DEFINITY 
AUDIX system p rovid es two typ es of networking , d ig ital networking  and  AUDIO 
Messag e Interc hang e Sp ec ific ation (AMIS) analog  networking. Dig ital...

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Dig ital networking  is d efined  as the transfer of a d ig ital file from one voic e 
mailb ox to another voic e mailb ox on a d ifferent system (DEFINITY AUDIX system, 
Intuity AUDIX system, or AUDIX R1 system). A voic e message is nothing  more 
than a d ig ital c omp uter file. The messag e is d ig itally rec ord ed  and  stored , then 
transferred  ac ross c ommunic...

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3. The remote AMIS system answers the c all, exc hang es p rotoc ols with the 
loc al system, and allows the loc al AMIS system to p lay, not transfer, the 
messag e.
4. As the loc al system p lays the messag e, the remote AMIS system rec ord s 
the messag e in the sub sc rib er’s mailb ox (ind ic ated  b y the extension used  
when addressing the message).
5....

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nIf your b usiness op erates in different time zones, you c an send  or rec eive 
messag es any time of the day or night.
nThe DEFINITY AUDIX system c an network (AMIS and  d ig ital) to a 
maximum of 100 DEFINITY AUDIX, Intuity AUDIX, or AUDIX R1 remote 
systems with a maximum of 100,000 loc al and remote sub sc ribers. 
nPassword s and  uniq ue identifiers for eac h...

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As you plan and  imp lement your network strateg y with the other network 
ad ministrators, rememb er that your mac hine is b oth loc al and  remote. All 
mac hines c onnec ted  throug h a d ig ital network req uire sp ec ific  information for the 
network to op erate p rop erly, suc h as mac hine names, p assword s, d ial p lans, and 
extension rang es.
Subscriber...

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Examp les later in this c hap ter show you how the three types of non-ad ministered  
remote subsc rib ers work with the network.
Administered Remote Subscribers
Th e  t e r m  administered remote subsc ribers describes any remote subscriber that 
has an ad ministered  profile on the loc al mac hine. The p rofile c ontains the 
following  information:
nThe remote sub...

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Digital Networking Application Types
DEFINITY AUDIX digital networking provides different types of data connections 
b etween other DEFINITY AUDIX systems, Intuity AUDIX systems, and  AUDIX R1 
systems. The following  list introd uc es you to some of the p ossib le networking  
strateg ies availab le to the DEFINITY AUDIX system. The d esig n c enter, 
International...

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Data Connection Types
DEFINITY AUDIX d ig ital networking  p rovid es d ifferent typ es of network 
c onnec tions using the Dig ital Communic ations Protoc ol (DCP). Data c onnec tions 
serve both loc al networking  and remote networking , d ep end ing  on your system 
c onfig uration. The following  tab le b riefly d esc ribes the d ifferent typ es of network 
c...