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MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.1
Network Reference
555-661-150
Issue 1
August 1998
Introduction
Page 1-2Networking Concepts
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Networking Concepts 1
In today’s environment—business, academic, and governmental—many
organizations are setting up multiple sites to provide customers and clients with
better access to products and services. Branch offices, operations centers, and
specialized campuses are supported by technological advances such as local
area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs), intranets, the Internet,
videoconferencing, and protocols that enable high-speed data communications.
For example, banking institutions and insurance companies often consist of a
headquarters with branch offices; school systems are organized around a central
administrative site that serves several schools in a district. Direct marketing
retailers, utilities, and government agencies are dispersed over multiple sites,
nationwide or regionally, to reach more clients or customers and to take
advantage of the economies offered by specific geographic locations. All of these
organizations share a common need: rapid and cost-efficient voice and data
communications. For users of the MERLIN LEGEND
®
Communications System,
Release 6.0 introduces the ability to realize significant savings and convenience
benefits through the networking of geographically separate locations in private
communications networks. Release 6.1 adds to the savings and convenience
benefits by providing a centralized voice messaging capability for networked
MERLIN LEGEND systems.
Briefly, a
private communications network
is an interconnected group of
communications systems, which may consist of MERLIN LEGEND
Communications Systems, DEFINITY
®
Enterprise Communications Servers
(ECS), and/or DEFINITY ProLogix Solutions. People within each system, called
local users
, can exchange voice and data with other individuals at
communications systems in the network, called
non-local users
. The systems in a
private network may be located on the same campus, or they may be separated
by thousands of miles.
NOTE:
All MERLIN LEGEND Communications Systems in a private network must
be Release 6.0 or later. When centralized voice messaging is used, all
MERLIN LEGEND systems that share the centralized voice messaging
system must be Release 6.1 or later. While DEFINITY systems can be
included in a private network with MERLIN LEGEND systems, the
DEFINITY system cannot share the centralized voice mail system of the
MERLIN LEGEND system, and the MERLIN LEGEND system cannot
share the voice mail system of the DEFINITY system.