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Functional Differences for G2 and G3 Call Vectoring
and EAS
E-6 Issue 4 September 1995
Announcement
This command indicates that the caller should expect to hear an announcement.
Although the announcement strategy G2 differs from that in G3, each strategy
assures that, theoretically, the entire announcement is played from the
beginning.
Table E-4. G2/G3 Differences for Announcement Command
GENERIC 3 GENERIC 2
Announcement extensions are used. Announcement numbers are used.
Provides integrated board internal
announcements.
Integrated announcement board is
not supported.
G3i (prior to G3V2) supports only
analog line port-connected external
announcement devices. All G3V2 and
later releases support auxiliary trunk-
connected external announcement
devices.
Supports only auxiliary trunk-
connected announcement devices.
The maximum number of calls that
can be queued and connected to an
announcement is limited by
preassigned queue slots. G3i has
150 such slots for analog ports and a
common pool of 50 slots for an
integrated board. G3i allows only 25
calls to be connected to an
announcement. G3r has 300 slots for
analog and auxiliary trunk ports and
300 slots for an integrated board. For
an integrated or auxiliary trunk, G3r
allows 255 calls to be connected to
an announcement. For an analog
trunk, G3r allows 128 calls to be
connected to an announcement.
G3V4 and later releases allow for
multiple integrated announcement
boards. G3i can have up to 5 boards,
G3r can have up to 10. The queue
slot and maximum connected calls
capacities have been increased. See
the
DEFINITY Communications
System Generic 3 Feature
Description,
555- 230-204, for details
Limited only by the number of time
slots available on the module to
which the announcement channel is
connected. The maximum number of
time slots is 256.