Multi-Link Voice/Fax/Modem Call Processor manual Your Own Personal Secretary

intercepted by The Stick via its automatic answer feature and routed to its proper destination ( i.e. phone, fax, modem).

The standard feature that makes this type of installation attractive is “Barge-In Protection” and The Stick’s ability to transfer a call between devices. If a voice call is answered and routed, only the phones will ring. If a call, accompanied by CNG, is answered and routed, only the fax machine will receive the call. Once a call is directed to its intended device, our “traffic cop” also keeps equipment connected to The Stick from “Barging-In” on the existing call.

Once again, for The Stick to perform in this manner, it must be installed on the phone line BEFORE all phone extensions, wall jacks or phone systems.

Your Own Personal Secretary

Everybody needs their own personal secretary to screen calls when they are busy with other things. If you install The Stick on the phone line by plugging it into a telephone wall jack, that is basically what you've got- somebody to answer an incoming call and either:

A)tell you it is a voice call (by ringing the phone connected to a VOICE port) or

B)route it to the appropriate equipment.

Here’s the scenario-you are in the basement working one Saturday and

the phone rings. Of course you have 3 or 4 extension phones scattered about your palatial estate, and particularly, one in the basement. With The Stick plugged into a telephone wall jack upstairs, you have the option of either “grabbing” the call before The Stick does via the basement extension or allowing The Stick to answer the call and route it to the appropriate device.

This type of installation gives you the advantage of accessing an inbound call from any extension- but you lose “Barge-In Protection”. Manual transfers can still be executed from an extension phone if needed.

The Right Features For The Right Installation

In the next section, we have outlined different types of installations and included some recommendations for feature settings that should optimize

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