Overview Of Zone Paging - Nortel 1000 Configuration Manual

Chapter 4 Zone Paging Configuration

Overview of Zone Paging

Overview of Zone Paging
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Voice Office Application Suite Configuration Guide
The Application Gateway distribution includes a document, Using
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Zone Paging on Nortel Internet Telephones, that you can change as
needed and distribute to IP phone users.
Zone Paging enables you to improve internal communications through an
easy to configure and use solution. With a few simple button presses, your
IP phone users can quickly make general announcements or emergency
broadcasts. IP phone users are restricted to paging only the phones that
belong to the same zones as the user. Pages are preceded by an alert tone
and page recipients can view the page sender's calling line ID (CLID) on
their IP phone display.
The Application Gateway can import paging zones from a directory server
(LDAP or CSV-formatted file). You can supplement those zones by
creating custom zones from the extensions supplied by the call server.
Zone Paging synchronizes with the call server on a configurable schedule
to update the mapping of extensions to IP addresses. If the call server is
unavailable during a scheduled update, the last available mapping is
used.
You can specify zone paging permissions for each extension that you add
to a custom zone. You cannot change the default zone paging permission
(Send and Receive) on imported paging zones. An extension can send and
receive pages or can be restricted to sending or receiving only.
Zone Paging operation interacts with the IP telephone as follows:
A page is blocked if the phone audio is busy. For example, a page is
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blocked if the phone user is:
On a call.
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Sending a page.
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If the phone user has placed or received a call and puts the call on
hold, the user will not receive pages until about 40 seconds of hold
time elapse. If a user is placed on hold by another caller, the user will
not receive pages.
A page is interrupted if the phone user:
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Answers or makes a call.
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