Administrator's Guide

Features and technical reference
555-233-5061690 Issue 5 October 2002
Related topics
See ‘‘Route Pattern’’ on page 1096 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 server.
■ 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. See ‘‘Interactions’’ on page 1691 for
features that block group pages.
Legend
BCC Type
DCP/DM
I Mode
0 Voice-Grade Data and Voice None
1 56 kbps Data (Mode 1) 1
2 64 kbps Data (Mode 2) 2
3 64 kbps Data (Mode 3) 3
4 64 kbps Data (Mode 0) 0