Lucent Technologies DEFINITY Enterprise Communications Server Release 8.2 Overview Manual

DEFINITY Enterprise Communications Server Release 8.2
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System Management Features 
71 Information and Reports 
Va r i a b l e  L e n g t h  P i n g
Provides an enhancement to the ping command included in R7.1. This enhancement 
specifies a longer packet to be sent by ping and shows if a router or host has a problem 
fragmenting or integrating transferred packets.
Information and Reports
Recent Change History
Allows the system manager to view or print a history...

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Call Charge Information
Provides two ways to know the approximate charge for calls made on outgoing trunks:
nAdvice of Charge — For ISDN trunks
Advice of Charge (AOC) collects charge information from the public network for 
each outgoing call. Charge advice is a number representing the cost of a call; it is 
recorded as either a charging or currency unit....

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Call Detail Recording (CDR)
Records detailed call information on incoming and outgoing calls for the purpose of call 
accounting and sends this call information to a Call Detail Recording (CDR) output 
device. You can specify the trunk groups and extensions for which you want records to be 
kept as well as the type of information to be recorded. You can...

System Management Features 
74 Announcements 
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nAutomatic Route Selection Pattern Measurements
nTrunk Group Detailed Measurements
nBlockage Study report
nPort Network and Link Usage
nEmergency and Journal reports coming from information from Crisis Alert to Digital 
Paging
Announcements
Recorded Announcement
Provides a recorded announcement to a variety of types of calls: calls that cannot be 
completed as...

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75 Administration Without Hardware 
Administration Without Hardware
Allows you to administer telephones that are not yet physically present on the system. 
This feature works the same as administration with hardware: when stations are moved, 
user-activated features such as Call Forwarding and Send All Calls are preserved and 
functional. This greatly facilitates the speed of...

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Trunk Group Circuits
Trunks provide the communications links between DEFINITY ECS and other switches, 
including Central Office switches and other premises switches. Trunks that perform the 
same function are grouped together and administered as trunk groups. Trunks interface 
with DEFINITY ECS via port circuit packs. DEFINITY ECS trunk group circuit types...

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Auxiliary Trunks
Auxiliary trunks connect devices in auxiliary cabinets with the DEFINITY ECS. Some of 
the features that are supported with this type of trunk are recorded announcements, 
telephone dictation service, malicious call trace, and loudspeaker paging.
Central Office: The location housing telephone switching equipment that provides local 
telephone...

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ISDN Trunks
Gives you access to a variety of public and private network services and facilities. The 
ISDN standard consists of layers 1, 2, and 3 of the Open System Interconnect (OSI) 
model. DEFINITY ECS can be connected to an ISDN using standard frame formats: 
Basic Rate Interface (BRI) and the Primary Rate Interface (PRI).
An ISDN provides end-to-end...

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Figure 11. DEFINITY ECS and ISDN
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3DEFINITY ECS8Public and Private Networks
4Basic Rate Interface Telephone9Central Office Switch
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Full ETSI Functionality
The full set of ETSI public-network and private-network ISDN features is officially 
supported. This includes Look-Ahead Interflow, Look-Ahead Routing, and Usage 
Allocation. It also includes all QSIG supplementary services supported through R8: 
nName Identification
nCall Diversion (including rerouting)
nCall Transfer
nPath Replacement...