Obtaining A Floor Plan - Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND Release 5.0 System Planning Manual

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0
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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 employees 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
at 10-button MLX telephones, MLX-20L at 20-button MLX display
telephones, BIS-34 at 34-button analog multiline telephones, and so on.
4. Indicate the type of adjunct at each location. For example, write FAX, ans.
mach. (answering machine), headset, or other type of adjunct 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 Ascend Pipeline™ 25 or 50).
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''
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in Chapter 2.
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June 1997
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