Lucent Technologies DEFINITY Enterprise Communications Server Release 8.2 Instructions Manual

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
Administrator’s Guide  555-233-506  Issue 1.1
June 2000
Managing trunks 
367 Setting up digital trunks 
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Enhanced DS1 administration
Normally, you can’t change the DS1 Circuit Pack screen unless you remove all 
related trunks from their trunk group. However, if the DS1 MSP field on the 
System-Parameters Customer-Options screen is 
y and you are assigned the 
associated login permissions, you can change some of the fields on the DS1 
Circuit Pack screen without removing the...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
Administrator’s Guide  555-233-506  Issue 1.1
June 2000
Managing trunks 
368 Adding trunks to a trunk group 
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Specific combinations of settings for some of these fields are shown below.
ITC, Bit Rate, and Line Coding. The ITC (Information Transfer Capability) field 
appears on the Route Pattern screen, Trunk Group screen, and Access Endpoint 
screen. The Line Coding and the Bit Rate fields appear on the DS1 Circuit Pack 
screen. The settings for these fields on all the screens...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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369 Adding trunks to a trunk group 
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Instructions
As an example, let’s assign 5 trunks to a new tie trunk group, trunk group 5. We’ll 
use ports on several circuit packs for members of this group.
To assign trunks to trunk group 5:
1. Type 
change trunk-group 5 and press RETURN.
The Trunk Group
 screen appears.
2. Move to the Group Member Assignments page.
Some of the fields on this screen won’t appear for...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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370 Adding trunks to a trunk group 
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5. In the Mode field, type e&m.
!CAUTION:
An entry in this field is only required for some circuit packs. Dip 
switch settings on the circuit pack control the signalling mode used on 
the trunk group, so the entry in the Mode field must correspond to the 
actual setting on the circuit pack.
6. In the Type field, type 
t1-comp.
An entry in this field is only required for...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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371 Removing trunks from a trunk group 
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Removing trunks from a trunk group
Use this procedure to remove vacant trunk ports or to change the assignment of 
existing trunks. To change the assignment of existing trunks, remove them from 
their current trunk group and add them to the new group.
Instructions
Let’s remove trunks 5214 and 5215 from trunk group 5.
To remove trunks from trunk group 5:
1. Type...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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372 Removing trunk groups 
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Removing trunk groups
There’s more to removing a trunk group than just executing the remove 
trunk-group command. If you’re using ARS, you must remove an outgoing or 
two-way trunk group from any route patterns that use it. If you’ve administered 
Trunk-Group Night Service buttons for the trunk group on any phones, those 
buttons must be removed or assigned to another trunk...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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Managing trunks 
373 Inserting and absorbing digits 
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Inserting and absorbing digits
Use this procedure to modify the incoming digit string on DID and tie trunks by 
inserting (adding) or absorbing (deleting) digits. You’ll need to do this if the 
number of digits you receive doesn’t match your dial plan.
Instructions
As an example, let’s say you have a DID trunk group. It’s group number is 5. Your 
service provider can...

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4. In the Expected Digits field, type 4.
This field tells the switch how many digits the central office sends.
NOTE:
The Expected digits field doesn’t appear on the screen for tie trunk 
groups.
5. Press 
ENTER to save your changes.
If your service provider sends 7 digits but you only need 5, you need to absorb the 
first 2 digits in the digit string. To absorb digits:...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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Managing trunks 
375 Administering answer detection 
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Administering answer detection
Use this procedure to administer an outgoing or two-way trunk group for network 
answer supervision or answer supervision by timeout. If your network supplies 
answer supervision to a trunk group, you can administer DEFINITY ECS to 
recognize and respond to that signal. If your network does not supply answer 
supervision, you can set a...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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June 2000
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376 Administering trunks for listed directory numbers 
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Administering trunks for listed 
directory numbers
Listed directory numbers (LDN) are the phone numbers given for an organization 
in public telephone directories. You can administer DEFINITY ECS so that calls 
to different listed directory numbers go to the same attendant group. How you 
administer your system for LDN calls depends on whether the...