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DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
Administrator’s Guide
555-233-506
Issue 1
April 2000
Features and technical reference
1125AAR/ARS shortcut dialing
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AAR/ARS shortcut dialing
(Not available with Offer B) Use AAR/ARS shortcut dialing to modify your dial
plan and expand the capabilities of automatic routing. With shortcut dialing, users
can make AAR and ARS calls without dialing the Feature Access Code (FAC),
usually 8 for AAR and 9 for ARS in the US. Dial plans with 5-digit extensions can
be expanded to include 6- or 7- digit extensions (without DCS transparency), and
you can use a 6- to 7-digit private network dial plan to convert a large DCS
network to QSIG. You can apply shortcut dialing to dial plans that use 2-digit
through 20-digit dialing, depending on your digit analysis tables.
Refer to DEFINITY ECS Administration for Network Connectivity for more
information on dial plans and Distributed Communications System (DCS).
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CAUTION:
DEFINITY ECS offers a wide range of features, and shortcut dialing users
may want to take advantage of this. In some cases, these features will
operate as expected. However, some features are not supported for use with
shortcut dialing, and
an attempt to activate them with an AAR/ARS Shortcut
number may
fail. In some cases, a private dial plan that requires 6/7-digit
dialing may make it impossible to activate a feature, because neither the
4/5-digit extension nor the 6/7-digit AAR number is accepted. Please contact
your Lucent representative for more information.
Detailed description
Shortcut dialing must be enabled on the System Parameters Customer Options
screen, along with either AAR (private networking), ARS, or both. See your
Lucent representative for more details.
Shortcut dialing simplifies dialing in the following ways:
■ Public-network dialing (AAR) — The feature access code (usually 9 in the
U.S.) does not need to be dialed to access an outside line.
■ 5-digit Uniform Dial Plan networks — You can add 6- or 7-digit numbers
to a 5-digit Uniform Dial Plan (UDP) in a DCS network to provide
additional extensions to your network.
NOTE:
Network nodes that are accessed using shortcut dialing (6 or 7 digits)
in a 5-digit UDP lose DCS transparency.