Jitter

specifies the amount of jitter delay, which is used to compensate for the variable arrival time of frames. Inconsistent arrival can result in a choppy voice quality. Increasing the jitter buffer size will increase the end-to-end delay, but will insure smoother voice quality.

Call Timer

is the amount of time the SmartSwitch 1800 will wait for a response to a Call Connect or Call Clear request. When the SmartSwitch issues the Call Connect or Call Clear request, it will set a timer to the value configured here. If that timer expires with no response from the destination, the SmartSwitch will generate a busy tone.

Long Dial Prefix

is a character that will be required preceding calls using the long-call format (i .e., when a speed-dial number is not used). When the user at an attached device (e.g., tele- phone or Fax machine) dials a long-form number, s/he must precede the number by the Long Dial Prefix.

Selecting this parameter will display a table of the following values. Specify a value by entering the corresponding letter from that table:

A = 0

D = 3

G =6

J = 9

B = 1

E = 4

H = 7

K = * (asterisk)

C = 2

F = 5

I = 8

L = #

Suppression

is a level of suppression of background noise. For most calls, low suppression (2) should be sufficient. The higher the suppression level, the greater the possibility that low-volume voice will be lost; therefore, suppression levels higher than 2 should be used only if it can be certain that background noise will be low or all of the voice trans- mitted will be sufficiently louder than the background noise.

1

= no suppression

2

= low suppression

3 = medium suppression

4

= high suppression

5

= very high suppression.

 

A larger suppression level saves composite bandwidth, allowing more data channels to operate simultaneously with voice channels.

Auto Dial Parameters

Auto Dial

Enables or disables the auto-dial feature of the SmartSwitch 1800. If auto-dialing is enabled, the SmartSwitch 1800 will dial configured Auto Dial Number when the handset attached to this Voice port is taken off-hook.

Enabling this parameter will disable the variable length dialing feature for this channel, regardless of the Dial Timer setting.

Auto Dial Number

is a number to which the SmartSwitch 1800 will attempt to connect when the handset (or its equivalent) attached to this port is taken off-hook, if Auto Dial is set to Y.

The SmartSwitch will automatically dial the long-form number defined in the speed- dial map table configuration that is associated with the speed dial number specified here.

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1800 specifications

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