Nortel Networks SONAR P0992639 01 User Manual

P0992639 01

Modular ICS Companion Installer Guide

 

Norstar Companion provides mobility in the workplace. With 
Companion, your telephone can go with you, allowing you to 
make and receive calls while on the move. Calls that used to 
ring just at your desk can also appear and ring at your portable. 
This is called twinning. Twinning works provided that the 
portable is assigned the desk telephone DN as an Answer DN. 
Wireless twinning is improved by assigning the same answer 
key to your Norstar desk telephone and to your wireless 
portable telephone.

The portable telephones can access most Norstar business 
features such as call forward, call transfer, conferencing, and 
voice mail. Companion on Norstar consists of four main 
components:

ICS and Norstar XC software - Norstar MICS-XC software 
manages the telephone traffic between Companion base 
stations and portable telephones. Base  stations are connected 
to the ICS in the same way as  Norstar sets. Companion 
portable telephones are registered on the system and do not 
take up any ports on the system. Up to 60 portable telephones 
and up to 32 base stations (32 cells) can be connected to the 
system.

Companion base stations — Base stations are positioned 
throughout the coverage area to send and receive calls between 
the portable telephones and the ICS. The base stations use 
advanced digital radio technology and support handoff and 
roaming within the coverage area which can be up to 160,000 
square meters (three million square feet) when using the 
maximum number of base stations.