Reserving Line Jacks - AT&T Merlin II Feature Module 2 Data Communications Manual

Reserving Line Jacks

OUTSIDE LINE
CONNECTIONS
EQUIPMENT
CONNECTIONS
2-8 Reserving Line Jacks
You use the Master Planning Form to reserve line jacks for:
• Outside lines
• Music-on-Hold, if you use this feature
• Loudspeaker Page, if you use this feature
The "Line Jacks" section of the Master Planning Form has six columns. The
first and fourth columns, headed "Line Jack, " list all the possible line jack
numbers (01 through 56). In the columns headed "Telephone No. or
Equipment, " you identify the outside telephone line or piece of equipment
connected to each line jack on your control unit.
To simplify system administration, you should plan to connect your outside
telephone lines to an unbroken sequence of line jacks, beginning with line
jack 01. You should also plan to group your lines together according to type.
Reserve the line jacks at the beginning of the sequence for your local lines,
and reserve jacks later in the sequence for special-purpose lines such as
WATS and foreign exchange (FX) lines.
If you know the telephone numbers for your system's outside lines, do the
following:
1 Match each outside line with a line jack on the control unit.
2 Under "Telephone No. or Equipment," enter the telephone number for
each outside line next to the number for its line jack.
If you don't yet know the telephone numbers for your system's outside
lines, do the following:
1 Enter the type of line (local, WATS, etc.) you plan to connect to each
line jack next to the number for that line jack.
2 When you find out the telephone numbers for your outside lines, enter
them next to the appropriate line jack numbers.
Now that you've reserved enough line jacks on the control unit for your
outside telephone lines, you can reserve a line jack for any optional
equipment that requires one. If you use the Music-on-Hold feature, you need
to reserve a line jack for a music source such as a radio, tape player, or stereo
system. If your business has a loudspeaker paging system, you need to
reserve a line jack for the paging equipment.
To make it easy to add outside lines in the future, use the last line jack(s) on
your control unit for the Music-on-Hold and/or Loudspeaker Page connection.
If your system has Music-on-Hold, write "music source" on the line next to
the number of the line jack used to connect the music source to the system.
If your system has loudspeaker paging, write "paging system" next to the
number of the line jack used to connect paging equipment to the system.