Remote Access Features - AT&T MERLIN LEGEND Release 3.0 Programming Summary Manual

Remote Access Features

Remote Access Features
This section covers the
Remote Access
Remote Access
Remote Access
Remote Access
Remote Access
Security Alert:
As a customer of a new telephone system, you should be aware that there
exists an increasing problem of telephone toll fraud. Telephone toll fraud can
occur in many forms, despite the numerous efforts of telephone companies
and telephone equipment manufacturers to control it. Some individuals use
electronic devices to prevent or falsify records of these calls. Others charge
calls to someone else's number by illegally using lost or stolen calling cards,
billing innocent parties, clipping onto someone else's line, and breaking into
someone else's telephone equipment physically or electronically. In certain
instances, unauthorized individuals make connections to the telephone
network through the use of remote access features.
The Remote Access feature of your system, if you choose to use it, permits
off-premises callers to access the system from a remote telephone by using
an 800 number or a 7- or 10-digit telephone number, The system returns an
acknowledgment signaling the user to key in his or her barrier code, which is
selected and administered by the system manager. After the barrier code is
accepted, the system returns dial tone to the user. If you do not program
specific restrictions, the user will be able to place any call normally dialed
from a telephone associated with the system. Such an off-premises network
call is originated at, and will be billed from the system location.
15-28 System Features
following Remote Access features:
Trunk Assignment
Automatic Callback
without Barrier Codes
Barrier Codes
with Barrier Codes