MERLIN LEGENDCommunications System Release 6.1
System Planning
555-661-112
Issue 1
August 1998
Features
Page 4-70System Features
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5. If the system must absorb certain leading digits dialed by users to place
calls on a particular pool, enter a number in the same row as the pool
number, in the Absorb column.
Use the number 0 if you do not want absorption. Assign a value of 1
through 11 according to the number of digits you want absorbed, starting
with the first digit dialed.
Example: If a company has FX lines/trunks for the 686 exchange in the 901 area
code and wants to allow people to dial those calls the same way they dial toll calls
to other area codes, an absorption number of 4 is assigned to the FX trunk pool,
Pool 893. The completed form for the 6-Digit Table that routes calls to the FX
trunk pool is shown in Figure 4–6
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After ARS is programmed, people in the company illustrated in Figure 4–6
dial
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;;;; to make these calls. The system absorbs the leading 1 and the
area code and dials only the seven-digit number to place these calls on one of the
FX lines/trunks.
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