Automatic Route Selection (Hybrid/Pbx Only) - Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND Release 5.0 System Planning Manual

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0
System Planning 555-650-112
4 Features
System Features
2. On Form 10b, System Speed Dial:
a.
b.
c.

Automatic Route Selection (Hybrid/PBX Only)

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SecurityAlert:
ARS should always be used for the best security protection.
This section contains instructions for using Automatic Route Selection (ARS) to
allow the most cost-effective use of lines/trunks connected to the system, which
can mean significant savings for the customer's business. Routing calls efficiently
is especially important when the business has several different ypes of
lines/trunks, such as local, WATS, FX, or tie, or uses more than one long-distance
company. If the system is pooled, you can use ARS to specify which trunk pool
should be used for each call, based on the telephone number the caller dials.
With ARS, users must dial a 1 before dialing any 10-digit toll number, even if the
local telephone company does not require a toll-call prefix.
You can define up to 16 ARS tables, each divided into two subpatterns based on
the time of day. Four additional tables are factory set and are designed to save
programming time.
In this section, you define a set of ARS tables. This set includes a list of area
codes and exchanges associated with each table, the preferred and alternate
routes (if any) for each subpattern, and the Facility Restriction Level (FRL) for
each route. As the system manager becomes more familiar with the calling
patterns of the company and with the intricacies of ARS, he or she may want to
change these patterns to suit the particular installation.
Write the label (maximum: 11 characters) to be displayed for the
number in the Name column.
Write each telephone number (maximum: 40 digits) in the
Telephone Number column.
To display no number (Marked System Speed Dial entry), check the
No box in the Display column (the factory setting is Yes).
NOTE:
Marked System Speed Dial entries (entries that do not display) are
not affected by the Second Dial Tone Timer setting. If the Central
Office does not immediately supply dial tone when a star code is
entered and a Marked System Speed Dial entry uses star codes,
then the appropriate number of pauses (each 1.5 seconds) must be
programmed in the entry following each star code.
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Issue 1
June 1997
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