Lucent Technologies MLX-16DPTM, MLX-20L Understanding Your Telephone, Line Buttons, Tones, Rings

Understanding Your Telephone

Line Buttons

All Telephones

NNN-XXXXMake/receive outside calls only.

Telephones with ICOM Buttons

ICOM Ring	Make/receive inside
	ringing calls and receive
	inside voice-announced
	calls.
ICOM Voice	Make inside voice-
	announced calls and
	receive inside ringing and
	voice-announced calls.
ICOM	Make (not receive)
Originate Only	inside calls only.

Telephones with System Access (SA) Buttons

SA buttons give you access to inside or outside lines for making and/or receiving calls. To make an outside call on an SA button, first dial the dial-out code (usually 9) that your system manager supplies. No dial-out code is necessary when you call another extension.

SA Ring	Make/receive inside/outside
	ringing calls and receive inside
	voice-announced calls.
SA Voice	Make/receive outside calls,
	receive inside ringing and voice-
	announced calls, make inside
	voice-announced calls.
SA Originate	Make (not receive) inside and
Only	outside calls.
Shared SA	Make/answer calls for co-workers
(SSA)	or join conversations. One person
	has an SA button that is shared
	with one or more others who have
	SSA buttons corresponding to it.
	See Rings for information about
	how calls ring at these buttons.
Pool	Make/receive outside calls only.
	Use the dial-out code supplied by
	your system manager.

Tones

Tone		Meaning
	Dial tone (steady)	You can make a call.
	Busy (slow repeating tone)	The phone you are calling is busy.
	Fast busy (fast repeating tone)	No lines are available.
	Error (alternating high-low tones)	You dialed a number or used a feature
		incorrectly.
	Confirmation (double break in	You used a feature correctly.
	dial tone followed by steady tone)
	Callback (5 short beeps)	This call is receiving Callback treatment (see p. 12).
	Call Waiting (1 or 2 beeps)	You have an inside (1 beep) or an outside
		(2 beeps) call waiting (see p. 12).

Rings

The table below helps you identify the different types of ringing. You can also personalize ringing at your telephone or adjust ring timing for the line buttons where calls arrive. Programming Buttons & Settings, p. 20, tells you how to change the settings. Listed below are your options:

• Personalized Ring. Allows you to give calls ringing at your phone one of 8 distinctive

rings.

• Abbreviated Ring. When you are on a call and another call arrives at your phone, you can

use this feature to give the second call a short ring.

• Immediate Ring. Calls ring immediately on line buttons set this way.

• Delay Ring. This setting causes calls to ring at your phone after a delay. If your calls are

being covered, this allows time for another person to answer a call before you do.

• No Ring. Calls do not ring (except for returning transferred and Callback calls). Calls on

lines set for No Ring do not receive coverage (see p. 13).

Line Button Lights

Light	Meaning
Steady red	The line you are using or will use when you lift the handset or
	press the Speaker button.
Steady green	The line is in use, or the feature programmed onto the line button
	is on.
Flashing green	An incoming call is ringing on this line button or a call you
	transferred is returning to this line button (see p. 6).
Fast-flashing green	You have put a call on hold on this line button.
Slow-flashing green	Someone else has put a call on hold on this line button.

• Send Ring. Usually, when a call comes in on an SA button, it rings there immediately and

rings at the corresponding SSA buttons after a delay, giving the person with the SA button

time to answer before the call is picked up by someone with a corresponding SSA button.

When busy on another call, the person with the SA button can use the Send Ring setting to

make calls arriving at other SA buttons ring immediately on corresponding SSA buttons

instead of after a delay.

Ring		Meaning
	1 long ring	Inside call
	1 long ring and 1 short ring	Outside call
	1 long ring and 2 short rings	Priority ring; outside call transferred to you or
		returning camped-on call (see p. 12)
	1 long ring and 3 short rings	Returning Callback call (see p. 12)

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