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System Features
AXXESS® ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE – January 2004
Paging
PAGING
The Paging feature allows announcements to be made through phone internal speakers.
Optional external paging equipment (amplifiers and paging speakers) may also be installed.
There can be up to 10 paging zones (50 when using a CP Server). When the system is in the
default state, all Inter-Tel phones are assigned to paging zone 1 to provide an all-page zone.
Inter-Tel phones, trunks, and the external paging port(s) can be assigned to any, all, or none of
the paging zones, as desired.
NOTE: Placing a large number of Inter-Tel phones in a paging zone may affect system perfor-
mance. If system operation is affected when a page is placed to a particular page zone, remove
some Inter-Tel phones from that zone or change to external paging for the area served by that
page zone.
In a network, all Inter-Tel phones and trunks within a page zone must reside on the same node
as the page zone. However, a page zone can contain external page ports on other nodes.
NOTE: Because the external paging ports have intercom numbers (91000 and 91001), stations
can place an intercom call to the external paging ports, instead of using the Page feature, to
make a page over the external paging speakers.
Pages are not heard on Inter-Tel phones that have been removed from paging (using the feature
code as described below), are in Do-Not-Disturb, are ringing, or are in use. Also, background
music on phones and on external speakers connected to phone speaker leads is interrupted for
pages. If a trunk in a paging zone is unplugged, the page cannot be completed.
If desired, Inter-Tel phone users can program feature buttons to select the paging zones 0-9 (or
0-49) using paging access codes 9600-9609 (or 9600-9649).
The Page timer limits the length of pages. If it is set to 0, pages are unlimited in length.
TO MAKE A PAGE:
1. Lift the handset.
2. Inter-Tel Phones: Press the PAGE button, or enter the Page feature code (7). The dis-
play shows SELECT PAGE ZONE # (0-9).
Single-Line Sets: Enter the Page feature code (7).
3. Enter the zone code (0-9 or 0-49) for the desired zone.
4. After the single progress tone, make your page before the Page timer expires. If you
hear reorder tones, and the display shows PAGE ZONE NOT PROGRAMMED, there
are no stations in the selected page zone. If the display shows PAGE ZONE BUSY
TRY AGAIN LATER, the necessary system resources are busy or the paging zone is
being used by another station. Users cannot camp on to or queue the paging system.
5. Hang up.