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Bridged Extensions With a bridged extension, buttons and status lights on one telephone (the primary telephone) are associated with buttons and status lights on another telephone (the secondary telephone).

On the primary telephone, you can perform all operations (such as dialing telephone calls, placing calls on hold, forwarding calls, and so on).

On the secondary telephone, you can answer calls made to the primary telephone’s extension but you cannot make calls using the buttons that are associated with the primary telephone.

The administrator can create bridged extensions on:

An NBX Business Telephone with or without the Attendant Console

An NBX Basic Telephone if an Attendant Console is associated with it. The bridged extension is created on the associated Attendant Console.

Example:

An assistant’s job is to answer a manager’s telephone calls. The administrator can map the manager’s extension on the assistant’s telephone. The manager’s telephone is the primary telephone, and the assistant’s telephone is the secondary telephone.

The administrator can map a primary telephone’s extension to one or more secondary telephones.

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2101 specifications

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