User’s Guide
FSK | Frequency Shift Keying, in this manual referring to the signalling technique for | ||
| control the voice mail light on compatible telephones, and the signalling tech- | ||
| nique for communicating the caller ID of an inbound call. | ||
| The | ||
| sequence will follow. It is accomplished by depressing the telephone hook switch | ||
| for an interval of greater than 50 milliseconds and less than 750 milliseconds (a | ||
| millisecond is 1/1000ths of a second, so 750 milliseconds is 3/4 of a second). | ||
| Some telephones have a flash button that accomplishes this task. | ||
| Note that your telephone system distinguishes between a | ||
| longer than about | ||
| depression of the hook switch. | ||
| The symbol |
| is used in this manual to indicate a |
| Flash | ||
inside lines | The physical lines which you will run within your building and connect your | ||
| telephones, FAX machines, etc. Also called station lines or inside extension | ||
| lines. Designated by the NexPath Telephony Server as | ||
inside dial tone | A dial tone provided by the NexPath Telephony Server rather than by the local | ||
| telephone company. Note that, depending on the dial tone provided by your | ||
| phone company, the tone of an inside dial tone and an outside dial tone may be | ||
| indistinguishable from one another. | ||
listen in | Listening into an existing conversation or listening to a line after a caller has | ||
| already started leaving voice mail (screening voice mail). | ||
Night mode | Each extension can be assigned to ring at a specific phone or group of phones | ||
| depending on whether the system is in the Day mode or Night Mode. Usually, | ||
| systems are configured so that calls placed to the operator ring at the operator’s | ||
| phone when the system is in Day mode, but ring over the overhead PA speaker | ||
| when the system is in Night Mode. Individual extensions may be similarly con- | ||
| figured. Day and night mode can be changed from the telephone keypad and | ||
| from the web application TelOper, as described in the Users Manual. | ||
outside dial tone | A dial tone the local telephone company. Note that, depending on the dial tone | ||
| provided by your phone company, the tone of an inside dial tone and an outside | ||
| dial tone may be indistinguishable from one another. | ||
outside lines | Sometimes called CO, for Central Office, lines, trunk lines, or telco lines. All | ||
| of these terms are synonymous, and refer to the physical lines which come into | ||
| your building from the phone company. | ||
park orbit | A special way of putting a call on hold which allows anyone to pick the call up | ||
| by dialing the number of the park orbit (a type of public hold). | ||
