MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.1
System Programming Guide
555-661-111
Issue 1
August 1998
Glossary
Page GL-18
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Magic on Hold A Lucent Technologies Music On Hold enhancement that
promotes a company’s products or services.
Mbps (megabits per second)
Megacom The AT&T tariffed digital
WATS
offering for outward calling.
Megacom 800 The AT&T tariffed digital 800 offering for inward calling.
memory card Storage medium, similar in function to a floppy disk, that
allows information to be added to or obtained from the
communications system through the PCMCIA interface
slot on the processor module.
MERLIN Identifier Adjunct that allows users to receive, store, and use
information provided by Caller ID.
MERLIN LEGEND
Mail
A voice messaging system that provides automated
attendant, call answering, and voice-mail services. It is
housed in its own module.
MERLIN MAIL A voice messaging system that provides automated
attendant, call answering, and voice-mail services. No
longer available.
Messaging 2000 A voice messaging system housed in a PC that connects to
tip/ring ports on the system’s modules. Messaging 2000
provides voice mail, automated attendant, call answering,
and fax messaging.
MFM (Multi-Function Module) Adapter that has a
tip/ring
mode
for answering machines, modems, fax machines, and
tip/ring alerts, and an
SAA
mode for -48 VDC alerts. It is
installed inside an MLX telephone and is used to connect
optional equipment to the telephone. The optional
equipment and the telephone operate simultaneously and
independently.
MLX telephone A multiline button telephone that transmits and receives
digital signals
.
mode codes Streams of touch-tone codes used by voice messaging
applications to communicate with the system’s control unit.
modem Device that converts digital data signals to analog signals
for transmission over a telephone line, and analog signals
received on a telephone line to digital signals.
modem data
station
A type of data station that includes a modem as its DCE. It
may also include an MLX telephone for simultaneous voice
and data (MLX voice and modem data station), an analog
multiline telephone (analog voice and modem data
station), or a single-line telephone for dialing only (modem
data-only station). These data stations connect respectively
to MLX, analog, or tip/ring extension jack modules. They
provide analog transmission of data.