Lucent Technologies 5 manual Line Buttons in Hybrid/PBX Mode

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0	Issue 1
System Manager’s Guide 555-650-118	June 1997

3System Components

Telephones Page 3-27

You can assign any combination of up to 10 ICOM Voice, ICOM Ring, and ICOM Originate Only buttons to each telephone on line buttons 1 through 10. The number of line buttons that you can assign to a telephone is limited only by the number of lines/trunks in the system and the number of buttons available on the telephone.

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Because outside trunks are pooled in Hybrid/PBX mode, outside numbers are not associated with individual telephones. SA buttons on multiline telephones allow you to access a pool of lines and make different kinds of calls from the same button. Other types of buttons may connect the user to pools of special-purpose lines or to personal lines that are not pooled.

You can assign the following types of buttons to multiline telephones:

■SA Ring. Use this button to make and receive inside and outside calls. When you use an SA Ring button to make an inside call, the telephone at the destination extension rings once per cycle to indicate an inside call.

■SA Voice. Use this button to make and receive inside and outside calls. When you use an SA Voice button to make an inside call, the user at the destination extension hears your voice on the speakerphone after a single beep, rather than ringing. (If you are using an SA Voice button to make a voice-announced call and the user at the destination extension has a telephone that does not have a speakerphone or has disabled voice announcements, the telephone rings just as if the call was made on an SA Ring button.)

■SA Originate Only. Use this button to make inside and outside calls. You cannot receive calls on SA Originate Only buttons. The purpose of this type of button is to ensure that you always have a button available to make or transfer a call, establish a conference call, answer a call-waiting call, or pick up parked calls. For inside calls, you can program the button for either voice or ring operation.

■Shared SA (SSA). Use this button to allow two or more users to answer each other’s calls, join conversations, or make or receive inside or outside calls on each other’s SA Ring or SA Voice buttons. In a Shared System Access arrangement, one extension is the principal (or primary) extension. This extension is the telephone from which SA Ring, SA Voice, and/or SA Originate Only buttons are assigned as Shared SA buttons.

SSA buttons are often used by assistants and their supervisors, as well as people who work closely together, such as in a customer service department. For inside calls, you can program the button for either voice or ring operation.

■Pool. Use this button to make outside calls on a specific trunk pool. To make an outside call, press the appropriate Pool button; no dial-out code is necessary.