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GuestWorks and DEFINITY ECS Release 9
Technician Handbook for Hospitality Installations
555-231-743
Issue 1
November 2000
Installing the System
8Planning and Preparing the Site
■ For the call accounting link, the MAP hardware must be within 50
feet (15.2 meters) of the PMS. This distance can be extended using
a pair of Digital Communications Protocol (DCP) data modules
connected through the switch.
Figure 2 on page 17 illustrates an overall view of a hospitality solution.
Additional equipment that you must consider when laying out the floor plan
includes the following:
■ A customer-provided PC equipped with DSA, or a 715 management
terminal
■ Cross-connect fields
■ Space requirements and room layout
■ Cable slack manager.
3. Lay out and ensure appropriate power for the switch and the management
terminal in the equipment room, and arrange for an electrician to install.
4. Lay out and ensure appropriate grounding in the equipment room,
including provisions for a coupled bonding conductor (CBC).
5. Determine the location of equipment closets where feeder cables can be
terminated.
6. Determine where external trunk lines come into the building and where
external trunk converters and adapters will be installed.
7. Determine an appropriate available port circuit on the switch for each
telephone, trunk, and peripheral connection needed, and create a
provisioning plan based on standard procedures.
8. Have the customer contact the PMS vendor and, if not using the INTUITY
Lodging Call Accounting, the call accounting system vendor to find out if
there are any special connections required to interface with their
equipment. It is highly recommended that the customer schedule the
vendors to be on-site when the connections are made and the testing is
done for the PMS and the call accounting. If the vendors cannot be on-site,
they should at least be available by telephone.
9. If this is an upgrade from an existing system, remind the customer that
during the cutover, all Automatic Wakeup requests and Do Not Disturb
requests must be noted manually. After the cutover is complete, the
customer must manually input these requests.