AT&T System 85 manual PC/PBX Connection, Capabilities

PC/PBX Connection

PC/PBX Connection

This product offers the users of AT&T PCs and IBM compatible PCs the voice and data capabili- ties of a fully integrated voice and data workstation.

Applications

The PC/PBX Connection application software can be used with DEFINITY G1, G2, G3, System 75, and System 85. It is particularly useful for those users who wish to use their PCs as a termi- nal for a host computer or wish to have their PC communicate with other PCs. It is targeted to ‘‘power’’ telephone users who want to eliminate many pieces of equipment from their desk.

Capabilities

The PC/PBX Connection can be used to perform the following activities:

Dial calls from a PC keyboard

Use customized telephone features from a keyboard

Set up a personal telephone directory, search the directory, and dial voice and data calls from the directory (it can contain up to 32,000 entries)

Know when telephone messages were received, read the messages on the screen, and have the system automatically dial calls to people who have left messages

Log all incoming and outgoing voice and data calls and recall them on the PC

Use voice terminal and speakerphone or voice terminal with built-in speakerphone to make hands-free calls

Use security feature to keep directory and message information private

Use a PC as a terminal connected to a variety of host computers (synchronous and asynchronous)

Transfer files between a PC and another PC or host computer

Set up ‘‘script programs’’to have the system perform certain data functions

Moreover, voice and data functions can be used simultaneously, and other PC applications can be run while running PC/PBX connection in the background.

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