Obtaining A Floor Plan - Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND Release 7.0 System Planning Manual

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 7.0
System Planning 555-670-112
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Obtaining a Floor Plan

Table 1-3. Employee Communications Survey: Description of Questions — Continued
4. Covers someone else's
calls (receiver)
5. Shares incoming calls
6. Frequency of use
7. Data needs
8. Use of account codes
9. Frequently dialed numbers
10. Picks up calls
11. View incoming caller
information
Obtaining a Floor Plan
You may want to use a floor plan to make planning more manageable and to
ensure that the correct telephone equipment is assigned to each employee. If the
customer does not already have a floor plan showing the location of system
equipment, you should create one. Use the symbols shown in
following instructions:
1. Use a large sheet of paper and sketch the office layout. The location of
office walls and other partitions is important when features are assigned to
telephones that must be within hearing range of each other. For example,
pickup group members must be able to hear each others' telephones
ringing.
2. Indicate the location of each employee's telephone, other locations that will
have a telephone (such as a conference room), and the locations of data
terminals, PCs, and host computers.
3. Indicate the type of telephone at each location, using an abbreviation that
includes the number of programmable buttons. For example, write
at 10-button MLX telephones,
telephones,
Suggests assignment as a receiver in someone else's
Individual or Group Coverage arrangements.
Identifies calling group needs.
Identifies heavy and light telephone users. Heavy users
may benefit from additional System Access buttons and/or
an additional System Access Originate Only button.
Identifies existing and potential data terminal and personal
computer users.
Identifies current account codes used for charge-back of
calls if there is a programmed Account Code button on the
telephone and if the system includes Call Accounting
System (CAS).
Identifies useful numbers for the System Speed Dial list.
Identifies the need for a Pickup group.
Identifies which telephone users need call screening
capabilities. This service may be part of the local
telephone company's services, if available, and must be
subscribed to.
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at 34-button analog multiline telephones, and so on.
Figure 1-2
at 20-button MLX display
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