Obtaining A Floor Plan - AT&T MERLIN LEGEND Release 3.1 System Planning Manual

Obtaining a Floor Plan

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 Figure 1 1 and
the 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
MLX-10
telephones,
4. Indicate the type of adjunct at each location. For example, write
ans. mach.
beneath the symbol.
5. Indicate any additional equipment, such as a Station Message Detail
Recording (SMDR) printer, Call Accounting System device, equipment
required for off-site telephones, and so on.
6. Indicate the locations where AC power is available and/or required, for
example, for a Multi-Function Module (MFM), a console with two Direct
Station Selectors (DSSs), or an Integrated Services Digital Network
(ISDN) terminal adapter (such as the ExpressRoute 1000 or ISDN 7500B
Data Module).
The floor plan does not need to be elaborate or to scale. Keep the floor plan. Refer to
it during planning and complete it (by filling in extension numbers) when you get to
"Numbering the System" in Chapter 2.
at 10-button MLX telephones,
BIS-34 at 34-button analog multiline telephones, and so on.
(answering machine),
MLX-20L at 20-button MLX display
headset , or other type of adjunct
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