Lucent Technologies DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2 Administrators Guide

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Planning for MMCH
The following are some of the tasks you perform in planning and administering 
MMCH.
Planning the system
This is a list of questions to help you use DEFINITY ECS for multimedia. 
nHow many MMCH users are you going to have? 
nHow many multimedia calls do you expect to have at any given time?
With the information above you can determine how many...

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6. Administer multimedia complexes:
nAdminister data modules — Data Module screen, or Data Module 
page of the Station screen.
nAdminister stations as part of a multimedia complex, assign 
associated data module extension, multimedia mode, service link 
mode and appropriate multimedia buttons — Station screen.
7. Administer early answer and H.320 flag for stations,...

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nCall Vector
— Multimedia (optional)
nFeature Access Codes
— Basic Mode Activation (p.5)
— Enhanced Mode Activation (p.5)
— Multimedia Call Access Code (p.5)
— Multimedia Data Conference Activation & Deactivation (p.5)
The Multimedia Data Conference Deactivation FAC must be entered after 
you are active on a multimedia call. To enter the FAC:
1. Select TRANSFER
2....

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Administration commands
System-Parameters Customer-Options form:
To enable the MMCH release 6.3 feature, you must change the System-Parameters 
Customer-Options form. There are two MMCH related fields on page 2 of this 
form.
nThe “Multimedia Call Handling (Basic)” field must be set to ‘y’ to allow 
MMCH Basic mode operation. 
nThe “Multimedia Call Handling...

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Screen 15. Data Module screen (Page 1 of 2)
Screen 16. Data Module screen (Page 2 of 2)
nTy p e — Set the data module type to 7500 or WCBRI.
nMultimedia — This field appears on the data module screen only if MM is 
set to yes on the System-Parameters Customer Options screen. Enter Y to 
enable this data module to be multimedia compliant.
nMM Complex Voice Ext:...

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Station screen 
After you have administered the BRI data module, use the Station screen to 
associate it with a voice station to screen a multimedia complex. This is a 
one-to-one relationship: you can administer only one station and one data 
endpoint per multimedia complex. Neither the voice station, nor the data endpoint 
can be a member of another multimedia...

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resources. When the service link is disconnected it does not tie up any 
resources. The Service Link Mode can be administered as either 
‘as-needed’ or ‘permanent’ as described below:
— As-Needed
 - Most non-call center multimedia users will be 
administered with this service link mode. The as-needed mode 
provides the Enhanced multimedia complex with a connected...

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nMultimedia Early Answer — Valid entries are y and n (default). This field 
lets you set this phone for early answer of multimedia calls. The system 
will answer the incoming multimedia call on behalf of the station and 
proceed to establish the H.320 protocol. After audio path has been 
established to the caller, the call will then alert at the voice station. The...

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nmm-basic — This button is only allowed on the voice station of a 
multimedia complex. The mm-basic button toggles a station between Basic 
and Enhanced modes. This button can NOT be used to change the station’s 
multimedia mode when the station has an active multimedia call 
appearance.
Toggling between Basic and Enhanced mode changes the station’s 
administered...

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services will not be terminated, (only the station that activated the 
collaboration session can deactivate it). This button only works for stations 
connected to a DEFINITY ECS equipped with an ESM adjunct.
nmm-cfwd — The mm-cfwd button allows a user to indicate that 
multimedia mode calls will be forwarded as multimedia mode calls to a 
specific forwarded-to...