Release 6.0 Enhancements (February 1998) - Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND Release 7.0 Feature Reference

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 7.0
Feature Reference 555-670-110
Prior Releases: Features and Enhancements

Release 6.0 Enhancements (February 1998)

appear on WinSPM. Supported in Windows 95
WinSPM is also backwards-compatible with previous DOS versions of SPM and is
available on CD-ROM.
Windows NT Driver
The MERLIN LEGEND Windows NT PBX driver is available in R6.1. When
coupled with the CentreVU Telephony Services application, the driver provides
true server-based Computer Telephony Integration (CTI). The new driver requires
a MERLIN LEGEND System of Release 5.0 or later and servers and PCs that
support the applications.
Release 6.0 Enhancements
(February 1998)
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 Enterprise Communications
Server (ECS) and ProLogix™ Communications Systems in 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 the extension
ranges of remote networked switches to create a non-local dial plan. This
programming does not actually affect numbering on the remote system. To
correctly set up systems for transparent calling among non-local dial plan
extensions, the system manager assigns networking tie and/or PRI tandem
trunks to pools. Then he or she programs up to 20 patterns, associated
routes, Facility Restriction Levels (FRLs), digit absorption, and digit
prepending. This allows ARS-like routing of non-local dial plan calls. In
Windows NT, and Windows 98,
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