Planning Overview - Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND Release 6.1 System Planning Manual

MERLIN LEGENDCommunications System Release 6.1
System Planning 555-661-112
5 Data Communications

Planning Overview

Planning Overview
By using the procedures earlier in this book, you should have already reserved
the following:
Trunk jacks for outside lines/trunks
Extension jacks for voice telephone users
Extension jacks for either:
Forms Needed
Whether you are planning data options for a new system or modifying an existing
system, you record data communications planning information by making
additional entries on forms already completed earlier in this book, and on the
appropriate data forms shown in
Appendix C, "Data Forms," and work on the copies. Use the forms listed in
5–3, as needed. See application note, MERLIN LEGEND Communications
System Modem Pooling , for details.
NOTE: NOTE: NOTE:
Behind Switch mode is not included in these instructions. It works the same
way as Key mode.
Table 5–2. Data Forms
To Plan New or Modify Existing Systems
Trunk assignments
Feature assignments
Data hunt groups
Digital data and/or video stations
— Analog multiline telephones with a modem data station connected to
a General-Purpose Adapter (GPA)
— MLX telephones with either a modem data station connected using
an MFM or a digital data station connected using an ISDN terminal
adapter
— Digital data/video equipment (such as G4 FAX, and personal or
group video systems) connected either directly to an MLX port or
connected to an MLX port by way of an ISDN terminal adapter
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Table 5–2. Duplicate the master data forms in
Use These Forms
1a, Modem Data Station
1b, ISDN Terminal Adapter Data Station
1a, Modem Data Station
1b, ISDN Terminal Adapter Data Station
2, Data Hunt Groups
3, Digital Data/Video Station
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August 1998
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