Night Service with Auxiliary Equipment
You can set up modems, fax machines, and answering machines to receive calls automatically after hours. When Night Service is on, calls ring immediately at the appropriate extensions, so that no human intervention is required to transfer calls to the fax, modem, or answering machine. When Night Service is off, you can use the auxiliary equipment lines for normal business purposes, so that lines are dedicated to auxiliary equipment only after hours.
By putting auxiliary equipment in the Night Service Group as described in this section, auxiliary equipment can start ringing and answering calls whenever you turn Night Service on. In other words, the Night Service button at extension 10 acts like a switch, turning auxiliary equipment on and off, as well as putting the system into Night Service.
NOTE:
If you have a voice messaging system, turning Night Service on also activates Night Service operation of the voice messaging system.
Figure 4-11 shows a system with a fax machine and a modem connected to separate extensions. Line A is published as the fax line, and line B is published as the modem line.
Lines
A
B
C
CONTROL
UNIT
Ext
X
Ext
Y
Ext
Z
FAX
MODEM
Figure 4-11. Night Service with Fax Machine and Modem
To Use
During the day, lines A and B do not ring at extensions X and Y. When you turn Night Service on, calls on line A ring immediately at the fax (extension X). Since that line is not assigned to any other extension in the Night Service Group, only extension X receives fax transmissions. Likewise, with Night Service on, calls on line B ring immediately at the modem (extension Y). All lines ring at the system phone at extension Z.
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