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Electronic Brandlining Page 1377 of 3156
Features and Services
Operating parameters
The Electronic Brandlining feature applies to Meridian Modular sets that are
equipped with a display screen and the appropriate Meridian Modular display
firmware. Meridian Modular sets include: M2008, M2016, M2616,
M2216ACD1, and M2216ACD2.
The Meridian Modular display firmware, North American Version 18 (Three
Language Display) or later, is required for Meridian Modular sets to use the
Electronic Brandlining feature. North American Version 18 firmware
supports English, French, and Spanish.
The North American Version 18 firmware stores and displays the custom
display. If the custom display is sent to a Meridian Modular set without the
new firmware, the extra Scan and Signal Distributor (SSD) messages are
ignored.
There is an incremental impact of sending SSD messages for a customized
brandline. Therefore, it is recommended that no brandlining be done for
heavily loaded systems experiencing delays on the High Speed Link (HSL).
Instead, the default EBLN brandline can be chosen. Only one SSD message
is sent whether the NORTEL_BRAND prompt is set to YES or NO. To
minimize the number of SSD messages with the Terminal Text Broadcast
custom display, a blank display can be configured. In this case, the
customized text string is composed of a single blank space, and only one SSD
message is sent for the same real time impact as the default EBLN custom
display.
The custom display can have a maximum of 24 characters. Each character
must be supported by North American Version 18 firmware.
Version 18 firmware supports 7-bit ASCII Roman characters and 8-bit non-
ASCII Roman characters, regardless of whether or not the Multi-language
TTY Input/Output (MLIO) package 211 is equipped. Alphanumeric and
punctuation characters are supported.
When the MLIO package is restricted, if the “Valid 8-bit non-ASCII Roman
Characters” that are supported are used in a custom display, then a 7-bit TTY
may not be able to print the characters. If not, then each character is replaced
with an underscore character.