Lucent Technologies 8.2 User Manual

Issue 1

April 2000

Features and technical reference 

1491

Station Hunting 

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Attendant Display and Telephone Display

Prefixed extensions display without the prefix. The return call button 
causes the prefix to dial, even though it does not display.

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Property Management System (PMS)

Remove prefixes before messages containing the extension are sent to the 
PMS.

Five-digit extensions do not exchange with PMS until modifications are 
made to the PMS interface.

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Uniform Dial Plan

The following limitations apply to a distributed communications system 
(DCS) environment:

— Extensions that differ in length from the UDP do not distribute to 

other switches.

— If the first two digits of an extension correspond to the floor number, 

floors cannot be serviced by more than one switch.

Station Hunting routes calls made to a busy station down a chain of stations until 
one is found that is not active. 

To use Station Hunting, you create a station hunting chain that governs the order 
in which a call routes from one station to the next when the called station is busy. 
Each station in the chain links to only one subsequent station. However, any 
number of stations may link to one station.

The system updates the calling party’s display with “h” when the system begins 
checking the station-hunting chain. Likewise, the system updates the display of 
the station that is hunted-to (the station that takes the call) with an “h.”