76CHAPTER 7: GETTING MORE FROM YOUR TELEPHONE SYSTEM

Delayed Ringing (NBX Business Telephone only) The Delayed Ringing feature keeps your NBX Business Telephone from audibly ringing until the caller has heard a specified number of rings (typically, 4). During the first “silent” rings, the line's status light flashes. This feature works on a single NBX Business Telephone or on “shared” lines, as explained in the examples.

Your administrator specifies the number of silent rings in the NBX NetSet utility. The choices are Yes (rings always; default), No (never rings), or

1 through 9 (that is, ringing is delayed for from 1 to 9 rings).

Examples:

■In a hospital setting where it is important to keep the area as quiet as possible, all station appearances on an NBX Business Telephone at a nurse's station have Delayed Ringing set to 6 rings. The nurse can see from the flashing status light that a call is coming in and pick up the call before it disturbs the patients.

■A manager and assistant have a shared line by means of a bridged station appearance on NBX Business Telephones. (See “Bridged Extensions” earlier in this chapter.) The administrator can specify Delayed Ringing for the manager's line that is bridged, that is, on the primary telephone. When a call comes in, the manager's status light flashes but the telephone does not ring. The call also comes in on the assistant's telephone (the secondary telephone), where it audibly rings. Because of the flashing status light, the manager knows that a call is coming in and can pick up the call if the assistant is busy or away from the telephone. After the specified number of “delayed” rings, the manager's telephone also begins to ring.

■In a small business, a single incoming analog line is shared by (mapped to) all three telephones in the store. The administrator can set the line on the manager's telephone to Delayed Ringing and “No.” This setting means that the manager's telephone never rings audibly, although the status light flashes. Incoming calls always ring audibly on the other two telephones.

To prevent a call from going to your call coverage point before it rings audibly on the line that has Delayed Ringing set, ask your administrator to set the number of rings for Delayed Ringing to be lower than the number that you have set in the NBX NetSet utility for Call Forwarding.

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2101 specifications

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