AT&T 1987 AT&T Telephone User Manual


 
Considerations
DGC groups are particularly useful when the answering group receives a high volume of
calls. Call completion time is minimized and attendant assistance is not required.
Any number of outside trunks may be administered to feed into a DGC group. A trunk may
feed only one DGC group.
Interactions
Attendant Camp-On: For V1 systems only: if the attendant attempts to camp-on a
second call to a DGC group, it is immediately returned on the console.
Attendant Direct Extension Selection: When all stations in a DGC group are
busy, the status LED on the Selector Console lights steadily.
Call Coverage: When a call rings at DGC station that has Call Coverage, the call
will receive that station’s coverage. Calls directed to a busy DGC group do not
receive call coverage.
Instead, after a predefined number of rings, the call will be
transferred to a delay announcement (if provided), or ringing will be transferred to
all button appearances of the line and the SLAC queue (if trunk has ringing enabled;
V2).
Call Pickup: A DGC group member can also be a member of a Call Pickup group.
Direct Group Calling Delay Announcement: Provides a recorded announcement
to an outside caller who has been placed in queue for a DGC group.
Direct Inward Dialing: An incoming DID call may match a DGC group access
code.
Direct Station Selection (DSS): A DSS button can be assigned to a DGC group.
The associated LED lights steadily when all stations in the group are busy.
Modem Pooling: Modem Pooling supports calls to data endpoints that are part of a
DGC group. While an incoming data call is in a DGC group queue, the caller receives
ringing.
The conversion resource is inserted if the call is completed to a digital
endpoint.
Personal Lines: An outside line directed to a DGC group can be assigned button
appearances in addition to the DGC group assignment. When an incoming call is
ringing at a DGC group, the status LED on the voice terminal button appearance
lights steadily, indicating that the line is busy.
If the call goes unanswered for a
pre-determined number of rings (and no delay announcement is provided), ringing
will be transferred to all button appearances of the line and the status LED will
flash.
Station Message Detail Recording (SMDR): For an incoming call to a DGC
group that was connected to an announcement but was never answered, “O” will be
reported in the “STN” field of the call record.
If the call was answered by a station
after receiving the announcement, that station will be listed in the “STN” field.
Tie Trunks: Calls to a busy DGC group via auto-in tie trunks will be queued, but
will not receive a delay announcement.
Calls to a busy DGC group via dial-in tie
trunks will not be queued; these callers will receive Busy Tone.
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