AMIS Analog Networking

Audio Messaging Interchange Specification (AMIS) analog networking is also available on the Intuity platform. For detailed information on AMIS analog networking, see�AMIS Analog Networking, 585-300-512.

AMIS analog networking provides Intuity customers with the ability to exchange voice messages with people who use other systems with AMIS, including non-systems that use the AMIS standard.

Topics include:

• Description
• Requirements
• Connectivity
• Features
• Operation

Description

The AMIS analog networking feature permits subscribers to exchange voice mail messages with other voice messaging systems that have AMIS analog networking capabilities.

The AMIS analog networking feature is especially useful to the following Intuity AUDIX customers:

• Intuity AUDIX system customers who want to exchange voice mail messages with DEFINITY AUDIX systems or with nonAvaya voice messaging systems that cannot be digitally networked. The Intuity AUDIX system supports both digital networking and AMIS analog networking. Both types of networking can be used on the same machine.
• DEFINITY AUDIX system (prior to Release 3.2) customers who want to exchange voice mail messages with Intuity AUDIX systems, other DEFINITY AUDIX systems, or with nonAvaya voice messaging systems.

Requirements

The following table lists the required components for AMIS analog networking.
 

Table: AMIS Analog Networking Requirements

Component	Notes
Base platform configuration	—
Switch integration	—
Voice card (IVC6)	At least one is required. If adding AMIS to an existing configuration, consider adding more voice ports to accommodate increased traffic.
AMIS Analog Networking, 585-300-512	This book is provided with the networking product.

Connectivity

The AMIS analog networking feature package requires no additional hardware or connections beyond the standard configuration.

Features

AMIS analog networking provides for Message Delivery using preadministered or casual addressing. This section briefly describes these features. For more detailed information on the AMIS analog networking feature, see AMIS Analog Networking, 585-300-512.

Message Delivery

Message Delivery permits subscribers to send messages to any telephone that generates touchtone signals and has a number within the range of allowable numbers defined by the system administrator. This capability is automatically available when the AMIS analog networking capability is activated.

Preadministered and Casual Addressing

The system administrator can administer remote AMIS analog networking systems for onestep (pre administered) or twostep (casual) addressing. This section describes the features of AMIS analog networking when pre administered addressing is used.

For pre administered, onestep addressing, local subscribers typically enter the remote machine's prefix (if assigned), followed by the recipient's mailbox ID and the� key. However, subscribers who want to send AMIS analog networking messages to recipients on remote systems administered for onestep addressing can also:

• Address their messages by name only.

This feature applies to administered remote recipients only. Administered refers to remote subscribers who have been entered in the local Intuity AUDIX system's database.

• Include the names and telephone numbers of remote recipients in their personal mailing lists.
• Provide for unadministered remote recipients to be included by telephone number only.
• Hear the spoken name of the person to whom they are addressing mail or whose name they are looking up in the directory.

If the administrator has not recorded these names, subscribers hear only the remote mailbox ID.

• Use the names and number directory, , to look up telephone numbers by name.
• Assign aliases to any remote recipients on systems administered for AMIS analog networking. Administered remote recipients can be included by name or telephone number. Non administered remote recipients can be included only by telephone number.
• Use automatic addressing to respond to incoming messages.

Operation

AMIS analog networking transfers analog voice files, not digital files and communicates with other systems including Intuity AUDIX Release 1 or later, DEFINITY AUDIX prior to Release 3.2, and some non-Avaya systems. AMIS analog networking operates in the following manner:

1. A local subscriber records and addresses a message to a remote AMIS analog networking subscriber.
2. AMIS analog networking dials the number of the subscriber machine to which the message was addressed.
3. The AMIS analog networking system on the remote machine answers the call, exchanges protocols with the local machine, and allows the local AMIS Analog Networking machine to play the message.
4. The remote AMIS analog networking machine records the message in the mailbox of the subscriber to whom the message was addressed.
5. The remote subscriber can now listen to the message.

Voice ports are used for AMIS analog connections. Protocol information is sent between systems through touchtone signals, and the messages are played by the sending system and recorded by the receiving system. This industry standard for intervendor networking is defined in the AUDIO Messaging Interchange Specification (AMIS) document. Intuity AUDIX supports AMIS analog networking connectivity with the following vendors:

• Centigram
• Comverse
• Digital Sound
• Northern Telecom
• Rolm

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