Lucent Technologies 518-458-100 manual GL-2, Auxiliary equipment

Glossary

Auxiliary equipment

Telecommunications equipment (other than system phones) that can be connected to the control unit. Auxiliary equipment includes industry-standard devices that can connect directly to the public telephone network (such as standard phones or fax machines), as well as devices that require the interface provided by the control unit.

B

Background Music

A feature that provides background music through the speaker of an idle system phone for a user’s work area. Background Music plays the pre-recorded material from the Music-On-Hold audio source.

Backup

The system and telephone programming settings can be saved on a Backup/Restore PC Card using either of two features: Backup Programming—Automatic (#123) or Backup Programming—Manual (#124) .

Backup/Restore PC Card

A Lucent Technologies proprietary PC Card that is used like a floppy disk to back up system and telephone programming settings and to restore these settings if they become corrupted. This card must be inserted in the PARTNER Endeavor processor module before you use the system’s backup or restore features [Backup Programming—Automatic (#123) , Backup Programming— Manual (#124), or Restore Programming (#125)]. See also PC Card.

C

Call Answer Service

A voice messaging system feature that lets callers leave a message at an unanswered extension or transfer themselves to another extension.

Call Assistant

See Intercom Autodialer.

Call Coverage

A feature that lets users send their intercom and transferred calls and calls on their owned lines to a covering extension when they are unable to answer calls.

Call Park

A feature that lets a user put a call on a special type of hold, so it can be picked up from any extension in the system.

Call Waiting

A feature that lets standard phone users receive notification of a second incoming call when they are busy on a call. The user can press the switchhook to put the first call on hold and answer the second call.

Caller ID

A feature that displays an incoming caller’s number (or name) on a system display phone. To get Caller ID, you must subscribe to the service (if it is available) from your local phone company and connect Caller ID lines to the appropriate system modules.

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