Extension To Cellular And Off-Pbx Stations (Ops) - Avaya Communication Manager Administrator's Manual

Feature Reference

Extension to Cellular and Off-PBX Stations (OPS)

Extension to Cellular and Off-PBX Stations (OPS)
Extension to Cellular allows a cell phone to be treated as if it were an extension on the Avaya server
running Communication Manager. This is accomplished by mapping the phone to the user's main office
phone. All other types of calls, such as direct calls to and from the published cell phone number, are
unaffected by Extension to Cellular. The user's cell phone performs exactly as it did prior to enabling it
for Extension to Cellular.
When Extension to Cellular is administered and active, a call towards the office phone's extension alerts
both the office phone and the outside phone simultaneously. This allows users to receive work-related
calls wherever they are and whenever they need to.
Additionally, the outside phone can be administered so that when a user calls into the office, the user's
name and office phone number appear in the caller ID display of the phone being called. The user also
has the option of picking up an ongoing Extension to Cellular cell phone call on the office phone upon
entering the office.
The cell phone user receives the same features and capabilities for incoming calls as a caller ID-enabled
analog phone connected directly to the Avaya server running Communication Manager. Extension to
Cellular provides this capability regardless of the cell phone's cellular service provider or the cellular
standard in use.
Feature Name Extensions (FNE)
Once connected, a cell phone or SIP phone user has the ability to activate certain Communication
Manager features by dialing a feature name extension (FNE). You, as the administrator, create these
phone extensions on the Extension to Call Which Activate Features by Name screen. On this screen,
you map these phone extensions to specific features in Communication Manager. The phone extensions
must comply with your dial plan and are administered system-wide.
This capability adds to the current capability to invoke certain features through feature access
codes (FAC).
Extension to Cellular, security codes, and
console permissions
While security codes are available to protect activation of this feature, you do not need to set security
codes if you have console permissions as set on the Class of Service (COS) screen.
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If you have console permissions, you do not need a security code to activate Extension to Cellular.
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If you do not have console permissions, you need a security code to activate Extension to Cellular.
Extension to Cellular makes use of station security codes to ensure that the user has control over who is
enabling and disabling his or her extensions.
NOTE:
The exception is the ability to enable and disable Extension to Cellular and to, if so
configured, enable an Extension to Cellular timer from an administered feature button on
the office phone. Security codes are not required to use an administered feature button on
a office phone.
1518 Administrator's Guide for Avaya Communication Manager
November 2003