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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 and OK to program the Registration 
password.
Record the password in the Programming Record.
Change password to avoid incorrect 
registration.
To ensure accurate registration, change the 
Registration password before registering any 
portables. If there is another wireless system in 
radio range, and both systems have the same 
Registration password and registration enabled, 
you may accidentally register on the other system 
instead of on your own.
Tip - You can choose any combination of one to six 
digits. It is easier to remember the password if the digits 
spell a word. Provide this password only to selected 
personnel to prevent unauthorized access to 
programming. The implications of such access may 
include the rearrangement of line assignments, which 
could affect the operation of the Norstar system. 
						

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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 enabled for your Norstar Companion 
system, a series of extension numbers (637 to 6 96) 
automatically becomes available for registration. Check that 
an extension number is available before registering a portable 
telephone to it.
Software Keys are required to activate 
wireless capabilities (U.S. only)
To take advantage of the wireless capabilities 
available to your Norstar system, you must first 
enable a certain number of portable credits using 
Software Keys purchased through Nortel 
Networks. Keys are obtained and entered into the 
system by the installer. For more detailed 
information on enabling Norstar Companion, see 
the 
Modular ICS Companion Installer Guide.
Registration should normally be disabled.
For security reasons, and to prevent 
unauthorized users from being registered to your 
system, set registration to 
N when you have 
finished registering the portables. 
						

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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 an Installer or System Coordinator programming 
session.
Press ≠ to view registered and available DNs.
Note:  The DN range 637 to 696 can be used by either portable 
telephones or ISDN S loops. You can assign all 60 of 
the DNs to S loops and none to portable telephones. 
You can assign up to 30 DNs to portable telephones, 
leaving 30 for S loops. Within these two limits you can 
choose a combination of ISDN and portable telephone 
DNs. For more information, refer to Modular ICS 
Installer Guide.
Deregistering a portable
Deregister an extension number when:
you must replace the portable due to loss or breakage
you want to assign the handset to someone with a different 
telephone number than the previous user
Press ≠ and DEREG
 to deregister a DN. 
						

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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 settings apply to base stations. 
Cell assignment
A cell is the area covered by one or more radios in close 
proximity. As you move around your office while on a call 
with your portable, the call is handed off from one cell to 
another. A call on a portable can be handed off from one cell 
to another only if those cells are programmed as neighbors. 
The Norstar system automatically assigns cell neighbors and 
re-evaluates the cell-to-cell configuration when base stations 
are added or removed.
Tip - This procedure does not clear the registration data 
in the portable. You must also deregister from the 
portable telephone using the on-the-air deregistration 
feature. For instructions, see the Portable Telephone 
Registration Instructions that are supplied with the 
portable. 
						

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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 
number (01 to 32) or select LIST
 to see all in sequence. When 
in the list mode, there is a softkey that allows you to FIND
 a 
specific cell number. Then select ≠ to see all Cell 
radios, Cell neighbors and Cell radio neighbors.
Cell radios
This subheading allows you to view the 5-digit number of any 
radios assigned to this cell. For example, if radio 07012 is in 
the cell, the display shows 07012 asgned. Press ≠ 
and enter the five-digit radio number to view the setting: 
Assigned or Unassigned. Select LIST
 to see all in sequence. 
Select SCAN
 to go to the list or next radio with a setting 
Assigned.
Cell nghbrs
This subheading allows you to view the 2-digit number of any 
cells that border a particular cell in a system. Press ≠ 
and enter the cell number to see the settings: Assigned or 
Unassigned. Select LIST
 to see each neighbor in sequence. 
Select SCAN
 to see the first/next cell Assigned.
For example cell 01, the display shows Nghbr:03 and 
Nghbr:04. This means that cells 03 and 04 have been assigned 
as cell neighbors. 
						

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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 first/next cell Assigned.
For example cell 01, the display shows Rad nghbr:03, 
Rad nghbr:04, and Rad nghbr:11. Cell 11 does not appear as 
a cell neighbor. Refer to the example under Cell nghbrs. 
Therefore it must be a neighbor of cell 03 or 04.
Registering individual portables
You must do two things to register each portable with the 
Norstar system:
Register the portables by entering the Registration 
password on each one.
Verify that the portable operates properly.
For instructions on registering and verifying each Norstar 
Companion portable with the software, refer to the Modular 
ICS Companion Installer Guide. 
For instructions on operating a Norstar Companion portable, 
see the Companion Portable Telephone User Guide that 
comes with the portable handset.
When you distribute the portables, tell the users that the 
portables are registered, and give them the corresponding 
extension numbers.  
						

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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 that each user have the 
system they use most often registered in slot 1.)
If a portable telephone is lost or broken, deregister 
it from the system before replacing it with another 
portable telephone. 
						

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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
Terminals&Sets
Capabilities
Fwd no answer Fwd to:  
Fwd delay: 

Fwd on busy Y
DND on Busy N
Handsfree N
HF answerback None
Pickup group A portable can be part of a pickup 
group and answers calls ringing at 
telephones in the same group when 
the user enters 
¥àß.
Paging Y
Page zone  1
D-Dial Set 1 A portable cannot be a Direct-Dial 
telephone. It can use the Direct-Dial 
digit.
Hotline   None 
						

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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 twinning.
It is also possible to have calls to the portable appear on the 
desk telephone as an Answer DN.
An Answer DN for a desk telephone and portable is 
programmed exactly the same way as for two desk telephones. 
An installer or customer service representative programs 
Answer DNs.
You can have up to eight Answer Keys assigned to your 
portable. 
Priority call Y Requires special configuration of 
hardware and programming
Restrictions
Set restrictions
Set lock Y Does not apply to portables.
Allow last no Y Does not apply to portables.
Allow saved no Y Does not apply to portables.
Allow link Y This can be set to N for portables.Heading Setting Notes