Nortel Modular Ics Companion System Coordinator Guide

Programming / 7
P0992641 01 Modular ICS Companion System Coordinator Guide
Changing the Registration password
To ensure unauthorized portables are not registered to your 
system, a separate level of password access is provided. You 
can, and should, set your own password to prevent 
unauthorized handsets from registering on your system. You 
can change the Registration password under the Passwords 
heading in programming.  
The default Registration password is RADIO 
(àÛÜÝß) .
Use CHANGE
, the dial pad...

8 / Programming
Modular ICS Companion System Coordinator Guide P0992641 01
Companion programming
Perform Companion programming in System programming. 
Registration
You must enable registration for the entire Norstar system to 
allow registration of individual portables. The options are Yes 
(Y) and No (N). Yes indicates that Registration is enabled. No 
is the default and indicates that Registration is not enabled.
Use ≠ and CHANGE
 to enable or disable registration.  
Portable DNs
Once registration is...

Programming / 9
P0992641 01 Modular ICS Companion System Coordinator Guide
If the extension number shows a status of Available, it is ready 
for registering a Companion portable telephone.
If the extension number shows a status of Registered, a 
Companion portable telephone is already registered to that 
extension number. In this case, you can either pick a different 
extension number, or deregister the current portable telephone. 
You must perform deregistration both at the portable and 
during either...

10 / Programming
Modular ICS Companion System Coordinator Guide P0992641 01
Radio data
Re-evaluation
Re-evaluation automatically assigns base station radios to 
cells and determines which cells are neighbors.  When adding 
or removing base stations, Re-evaluation must be applied to 
the system. 
Re-evaluation Status
Press ≠ to see the Re-evaluation status. If the display 
reads required, you can carry out the re-evaluation by 
pressing CONTINUE
 and following the prompts.
Radios
Radio programming...

Programming / 11
P0992641 01 Modular ICS Companion System Coordinator Guide
The cell assignment setting allows you to see if a base station 
radio is assigned to a cell in the Companion system.
Press ≠ and enter the 5-digit radio number to see the 
setting: Assigned or Unassigned or select LIST
 to see all 
radios in sequence.
Cells
Cell programming allows you to examine the cell radio, cell 
neighbor, and cell radio neighbor configurations. Choose the 
cell you want to examine by pressing ≠ and the cell...

12 / Programming
Modular ICS Companion System Coordinator Guide P0992641 01
Cell rad nghbrs
This subheading allows you to view the two-digit number of 
any cells that border a particular cell in a system, these are 
referred to as the cell neighbors. As well, you can view any 
cells that border the cell neighbors. Press ≠ and enter 
the cell number to see the settings: Assigned or Unassigned
UnassignedUnassigned Unassigned. 
Select LIST
 to see each neighbor in sequence. Select SCAN to 
see the...

Programming / 13
P0992641 01 Modular ICS Companion System Coordinator Guide
Tip - You can register a portable to more than one 
system. You cannot register a portable to more 
than one extension number per system. You 
cannot register more than one portable to one 
extension number.
Tip - If a portable telephone is to be used in more 
than one Norstar or Companion system, its owner 
must know which registration slot number was 
used to register the portable telephone with each 
system. (It is preferable...

14 / Programming
Modular ICS Companion System Coordinator Guide P0992641 01 

P0992641 01 Modular ICS Companion System Coordinator Guide
System programming
Once the registration process is complete, portable telephone 
programming is much the same as it is for Norstar desk 
telephones. Some of the programming settings do not affect 
the operation of the portable. 
See your Modular ICS  System Coordinator Guide for detailed  
instructions on how to program your Norstar system. 
The following table shows the recommended settings for your 
Norstar system:
Heading Setting Notes...

16 / System programming
Modular ICS Companion System Coordinator Guide P0992641 01
Twinning between Companion portables and Norstar 
wireline telephones
Using Answer DNs
If you have both a wireline (desk) telephone and Companion 
portable telephone you can answer calls from either device by 
using the Norstar Answer DN feature. Any call that normally 
rings at your desk can also appear and ring at your portable if 
it is assigned the desk telephone DN as an Answer DN. This 
arrangement is called...