Managing Data Calls
Types of Data Connections
Administrator’s Guide for Avaya Communication Manager
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November 2003
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Managing Data Calls
Types of Data Connections
You can use Avaya Communication Manager to allow the following types of data elements/devices to
communicate to the world:
•
Data Terminals
•
Personal computers
•
Host Computers (for example, CentreVu CMS or INTUITY AUDIX)
•
Digital Phones (Digital Communications Protocol (
DCP
) and Integrated Services Digital
Network-Basic Rate Interface (
ISDN-BRI
))
•
Audio/Video Equipment
•
Printers
•
Local area networks (
LAN
)
You enable these connections using a large variety of data communications equipment, such as:
•
Modems
•
Data Modules
•
Asynchronous Data Units (
ADU
)
•
Modem Pools
•
Data/modem pooling circuit packs
Once you have connected these data devices to Communication Manager, you can use networking and
routing capabilities to allow them to communicate with other devices over your private network or the
public network.
This section describes the system features available to enable data communications.
Data Call Setup
Data Call Setup provides multiple methods to set up a data call:
•
Data-terminal (keyboard) dialing
•
Telephone dialing
•
Hayes AT command dialing
•
Administered connections
•
Hotline dialing