Planning Overview - AT&T Merlin II Feature Module 2 Data Communications Manual

Planning Overview

The Planning Forms
You can set up your MERLIN II system to provide:
• Simultaneous voice and data, voice only, or data only communications at
digital and analog workstations
• Local host computer access
• Modem pools for incoming and outgoing data calls
• Data hunt groups for local host computer access and outgoing modem
pools
The planning required to integrate data communications into your system
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includes:
Making sure you have (or
data options you want
Reserving the appropriate
telephone modules to connect the
control unit
Reserving the appropriate outside
lines
Making sure you have enough AC power outlets (one for each modem or
data module if you use stand-alone mountings, fewer if you use multiple
mountings)
As you plan data options, you record your decisions on the Master Planning
Form and the appropriate forms for the particular data options you select.
The Master Planning Form is provided in both. the MERLIN 11 System Planning
Guide and the MERLIN 11 System Manual. You may record information about
data options on:
• The Data Hunt Group Form and Incoming Modem Pool Form provided
with this guide
• Various forms provided with your
Call Restriction and AIlowed Lists Forms and the System Speed Dial Form
You use the Master Planning Form to reserve the jacks needed to connect
both voice and data components to your control unit. To insure that you'll
have a fully integrated voice and data communications system, this section of
the guide shows how to fill out the Master Planning Form for all the stations
in your system, not just those with data capability.
have ordered) the components needed for the
station lacks on analog, digital, or basic
components to the MERLIN II system
lines for modem pools on dedicated
MERLIN System Manual
such as the
Planning Overview 2-1