User's Manual

10 Nortel DECT Messenger Administrator Guide

For information about the other menu parameters in the eCONFIG module,

or information for any of the other modules in Nortel DECT Messenger,

refer to

DECT Messenger Installation and Commissioning (NN43120-301).

Nortel DECT Messenger overview

DECT Messenger provides a software tool, the eCONFIG, for making

changes to the configuration. The eCONFIG is on either the same PC as

the DECT Messenger software, or on another PC in the TCP/IP network.

After you run eCONFIG on another PC, the number of items you can

change is limited.

What is Nortel DECT Messenger

DECT Messenger is a software platform that allows message generation,

message routing, and message protocol conversion. Figure 1 "Nortel

DECT Messenger" (page 10) shows the inputs and outputs of DECT

Messenger.

Figure 1

Nortel DECT Messenger

Message input

The following input can generate messages in DECT Messenger:

• ESPA 4.4.4 pager protocol: DECT Messenger can receive pager

messages from ESPA 4.4.4-compatible pager equipment.

• RS232/V.24 serial input: many protocols are supported as input for

generating a predefined message or a user defined message.

• DECT handset with E2 (Low Rate Messaging Services [LMRS])

messaging.

• E-mail to the DECT Messenger server PC: send a message from

e-mail to a telephone set or SMS to cell phone or any other output on

DECT Messenger.

• Switches (push button, toggle): message alerts generated by alarm

contacts, door contacts, fire contacts, and so on.

Nortel Communication Server 1000

DECT Messenger Fundamentals

NN43120-120 02.01

11 May 2009