Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND Release 6.1 Feature Reference page 211

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.1
Feature Reference 555-661-110
Features
Coverage
2. If a sender sets the Ring Timing option for No Ring on any personal
Interaction of Individual and Group Coverage
Group Coverage can be used alone or with Primary and/or Secondary Individual
Coverage. When both Individual Coverage and Group Coverage are used, the
interactions between them follow this principle: If possible, a caller should always
get personal attention from someone with a Cover button for the sender—going
first to an Individual Coverage receiver, then to a multiline telephone with a Group
Cover button. In these cases, the receiver can answer with either the name of the
individual or the name of the group for whom he or she is covering. Only when
these types of receivers are unavailable or not programmed does the call go to
another, more impersonal type of Group Coverage—either the QCC queue or a
calling group (including a voice messaging system calling group).
A call to a sender that is also ringing on Primary Cover, Secondary Cover, and/or
Group Cover buttons rings until answered (or the caller hangs up). When the call
is answered, the ringing and flashing green LED are removed from all other
telephones providing coverage for the sender. However, when a calling group is
programmed as the receiver for a coverage group, the ringing and flashing green
LED are removed from the sender's telephone as the call leaves the calling group
queue and is sent to an available calling group member. (A call on a personal line
button on the sender's telephone is an exception. The ringing and flashing green
LED remain on that button until answered, either by the sender or by a receiver.)
NOTE:
The duration of the ringback heard by an outside caller is shorter than the
actual ring heard at an MLX or analog multiline telephone. Therefore, an
outside caller hears one or two rings and may also hear the number of
rings programmed for the Coverage Delay Interval plus the number of rings
programmed for the Delay Ring Interval. For example, if the Coverage
Delay Interval is programmed for one ring and the Delay Ring interval is
programmed for two rings, an outside caller hears four rings before the call
begins ringing at receivers' telephones. If both intervals are set to their
maximum values, the caller can hear up to two additional rings.
A call goes to Group Coverage depending on the following conditions:
Whether the sender is available or unavailable
Whether the sender has Individual Coverage (Primary Cover or Secondary
Cover buttons programmed on other extensions) and, if so, whether an
Individual Coverage receiver is available
The type of Group Coverage receivers programmed:
— Only Group Cover buttons on multiline telephones
— Both Group Cover buttons and the QCC queue
line, Pool, SA, or ICOM buttons, calls arriving on those buttons do not
go to coverage.
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August 1998
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