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MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.0
System Programming
555-660-111
Issue 1
February 1998
Common Administrative Procedures
Page 4-337Remote Access Features
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Remote Access Features 4
This section covers the following Remote Access features:
■ Remote Access over Networked Tandem and Tie Trunks (Release 6.0 and
later systems only)
■ Remote Access Trunk Assignment
■ Remote Access Automatic Callback
■ Remote Access without Barrier Codes
■ Remote Access Barrier Codes
■ Remote Access with Barrier Codes
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SECURITY ALERT:
As a customer of a new communications system, you should be aware that
there exists an increasing problem of telephone toll fraud. Telephone toll
fraud can occur in many forms, despite the numerous efforts of telephone
companies and telephone equipment manufacturers to control it. Some
individuals use electronic devices to prevent or falsify records of these calls.
Others charge calls to someone else’s number by illegally using lost or
stolen calling cards, billing innocent parties, clipping on to someone else’s
line, and breaking into someone else’s telephone equipment physically or
electronically. In certain instances, unauthorized individuals make
connections to the public switched network through the use of remote
access features.
The Remote Access feature of your system, if you choose to use it, permits
off-premises callers to access the system from a remote telephone by using
an 800 number or a 7- or 10-digit telephone number. The system returns an
acknowledgment signaling the user to key in his or her barrier code, which is
selected and administered by the system manager. After the barrier code is
accepted, the system returns dial tone to the user. If you do not program
specific restrictions, the user will be able to place any call normally dialed
from a telephone associated with the system. Such an off-premises network
call is originated at and will be billed from the system location.
The Remote Access feature helps the customer, through proper
administration, to minimize the ability of unauthorized persons to gain
access to the network. Most commonly, phone numbers and codes are
compromised when overheard in a public location, through theft of a wallet
or purse containing access information, or through carelessness (writing
codes on a piece of paper and improperly discarding it). Additionally,
hackers may use a computer to dial an access code and then publish the
information to other hackers. Enormous charges can be run up quickly. It is
the customer’s responsibility to take the appropriate steps to properly
implement the features, evaluate and administer the various restriction