Lucent Technologies Definity Audix System Release 4.0 Pocket Reference Manual

Capacity and Sizing 
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Voice Ports 
DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 4.0
System Description Pocket Reference  585-300-214  Issue 1
May 1999
Chapter 3 — Capacity and Sizing
Luc ent Tec hnolog ies c onfigures the DEFINITY AUDIX system’s c ap ac ity 
ac c ording to the c ustomer’s requirements for the system’s resourc es.
Customers are divid ed  into two c ateg ories of system use:
nBasic usage c ustomers use the DEFINITY AUDIX system mainly 
for call coverage.
nAd vanc ed usag e c ustomers use the system to...

DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 4.0
System Description Pocket Reference  585-300-214  Issue 1
May 1999
Capacity and Sizing 
3-2 Voice Ports 
The system’s GOS rep resents the frac tion of c alls to the p ort g roup  that 
are d elayed  more than 10% of the leng th of an averag e session d uring  
the b usiest hour of the day. Session times vary with subsc rib ers’ feature 
use, b ut session times average 60 to 100 sec onds when all sub sc ribers 
ac c ess features throug h a sing le port g roup. All servic...

DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 4.0
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Capacity and Sizing 
3-3 Voice Ports 
Understand ing the port c ap ac ities for the DEFINITY AUDIX system 
Release 4.0 will help c ustomers d ec ide whic h p ort p ac kages are right 
for their org anizations’ needs.
Features that Affect Voice Ports
Some of the DEFINITY AUDIX system’s features c an p lac e varying  
d emand s on the system’s resourc es. Among  those features that have 
unique req...

DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 4.0
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Capacity and Sizing 
3-4 Voice Storage 
Digital Networking
Using Dig ital Networking  reduc es the system’s maximum number of 
voic e p orts from 12 to 8. Customers who need  Dig ital Networking  and  
more than 8 voic e p orts should  c onsid er using  an I
NTUITY messag ing 
system. For more information about the INTUITY messag ing  system, see 
INTUITY Messag ing  Solutions.
AMIS Analog Networking...

DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 4.0
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Capacity and Sizing 
3-5 INTUITY Message Manager 
The DOSS c onfig urator allots two hours of voic e storag e sp ac e for eac h 
aud ib le lang uag e set or three hours of sp ac e for the 
Telec ommunic ations Devic e for the Deaf (TDD) announc ement set. 
Ta b l e  3 - 3
 shows the numb er of lang uage sets the system c an hold, 
g iven its voic e storag e c ap ac ity minus a two-hour allowanc e for eac...

DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 4.0
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Capacity and Sizing 
3-6 Backup Limits on the MO Disk 
Table 3-4. Limits for INTUITY Message Manager
Backup Limits on the MO Disk Drive
The 100-hour disk drive will ac c ommod ate up  to 100,000 remote 
sub sc rib ers. If more than 60,000 remote sub sc rib ers use the system, 
however, the system will only b ac k up  the loc al sub sc rib er names d uring  
the weekly names b ac kup . System ad...

Transition Notes 
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System Design 
DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 4.0
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Appendix A — Transition Notes
The hard ware d esig n for DEFINITY AUDIX system Release 4.0 has 
c hang ed  sig nific antly from p revious releases of the system. The most 
imp ortant result of these c hang es is a 60% red uc tion in the sp ac e the 
system req uires in the c ustomer’s switc h.
The c hange in system size req uired  some c hanges in func tionality that...

DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 4.0
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May 1999
Transition Notes A-2
System Design 
While DEFINITY switc h Version 4, Version 5, and  Release 6 rec ognized  
earlier DEFINITY AUDIX system releases’ TN566 or TN567 c irc uit p ac ks 
as b elonging to the DEFINTY AUDIX system, these switc h releases will 
rec ognize DEFINITY AUDIX system Release 4.0’s TN568 c irc uit p ac k as 
a TN754 or TN2181 dig ital port c ircuit p ack.
2 Bec ause of this c hang e,...

DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 4.0
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Transition Notes A-3
System Design 
must ad minister the maximum number of voic e p orts the DEFINITY 
AUDIX system will allow.3 If the DEFINITY AUDIX system emulates a 
TN754 8-p ort c irc uit p ac k, the administrator or tec hnic ian will need  to 
administer 8 voic e p orts. On the other hand, if the DEFINITY AUDIX 
system emulates a TN2181 16-p ort c irc uit p ac k, the ad ministrator 
should only...

DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 4.0
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May 1999
Transition Notes A-4
System Design 
information about the INTUITY messag ing  system, see INTUITY Messag ing  
Solu tion s.
Alarm Origination
In ad d ition to the TN566 or TN567 multifunc tion c irc uit p ac k, p revious 
releases of the DEFINITY AUDIX system used  a sec ond ary c irc uit p ac k, 
c alled  an alarm b oard
. The alarm b oard  d iag nosed  the DEFINITY AUDIX 
system for trouble and  p osted...