Lucent Technologies Definity Enterprise Communication Server 8.2 User Manual

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DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
Administrator’s Guide  
555-233-506  
Issue 1
April 2000
Features and technical reference 
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Group paging 
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Related topics
Refer to 
‘‘Route Pattern’’ on page 865
 for information on how to set up route 
patterns.
Group paging
Group paging allows users to make an announcement over a group of digital 
speakerphones.
You can create up to 32 paging groups on one DEFINITY ECS.
Each group can have up to 32 extensions in it.
It’s OK to assign the same extension to different groups.
Brief description
You, the switch administrator, create paging groups and assign extensions as 
members to the appropriate groups. Each group is assigned its own identifying 
extension, and users page the group by dialing this extension. When a user dials 
the group’s extension, the switch activates the speakers on all the phones in the 
group. Speakerphone paging is one-way communication: group members hear the 
person placing the page but cannot respond directly.
Restrictions
Pages aren’t always heard on every phone in a group. An extension does not 
transmit a group page if it has an active or ringing call or if it is off-hook. 
Listeners may drop a page by disconnecting. Refer to 
‘‘Interactions’’ on page 
1344
 for features that block group pages.
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DCP/DM
I Mode
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Voice-Grade Data and Voice
None
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56 kbps Data (Mode 1)
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64 kbps Data (Mode 2)
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64 kbps Data (Mode 3)
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64 kbps Data (Mode 0)
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