New Features And Enhancements; Release 6.0 Enhancements - Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND Release 6.0 Installation Manual

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.0 MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.0
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New Features and Enhancements

Release 6.0 Enhancements

New Features and Enhancements
Release 6.0 Enhancements
Release 6.0 includes all Release 5.0 functionality, plus the enhancements listed
below.
Private Networks
In Hybrid/PBX mode systems only, MERLIN LEGEND Communications
Systems can be networked with one another or with DEFINITY
Communications Server (ECS) and ProLogix
private networks. In previous releases, this functionality is available using tie
lines, but users handle calls between networked switches as outside calls. In
this release, dialing the pool access code is not necessary for a call going from
one networked switch to another. Also, delay-start tie trunks or T1 trunks
administered as PRI can act as tandem trunks to connect networked systems.
Available for Hybrid/PBX mode systems, the private network features of the
MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.0 provide the following
advantages for geographically dispersed organizational sites:
Intersystem Calling. In a private network, users on one local system
can call extensions on other systems in the network. Release 6.0 can
support 2-, 3-, 4-, or 5-digit dial plans. They dial these extensions as
inside calls. To implement this function, the system manager programs
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