Using SmartPhone for Telephone Services 9-1

Chapter 9

Using SmartPhone for Telephone Services

This chapter describes how to use the Netopia R3100’s SmartPhone™ feature. To see whether your Netopia Router supports SmartPhone, look for the two RJ-11 jacks, marked Phone 1 and Phone 2, on the back of the router. If your Netopia R3100 does not support SmartPhone, you can skip this chapter. With SmartPhone, other analog devices such as telephones, facsimile machines, or modems can connect to the Netopia R3100 and communicate over the same lines. The Netopia R3100 with SmartPhone provides:

auxiliary telephone control, allowing management of whether an attached phone can pre-empt or interfere with a Netopia R3100 data call. This is also called Call Bumping.

off-hook detection, preventing the Netopia R3100 from initiating data calls when the ISDN line is busy with a voice call

distinctive ring patterns to identify incoming caller

Bellcore specification Caller ID support for call authentication

call hold, call retrieve and the Flexible Call Offering (FCO) features known as Conference, Drop, and Transfer

Note: Outside North America your telephone provider may not use Bellcore specification equipment, thus disabling this feature. Caller ID is received as universally recognizable D channel traffic. The Netopia R3100 generates Bellcore Caller ID to the POTS jacks, which may not be the same encoding as non-North American PTTs use. Therefore an external caller ID box may not work. The Netopia R3100 generates the distinctive ring from the inbound caller ID.

Topics in this chapter include:

“Specifying telephone connections” on page 9-1

“Defining priority ringing” on page 9-4

“Advanced calling features” on page 9-5

Specifying telephone connections

You can configure telephone connections in the Telephone Connections screen, located in the System Configuration screen under Telephone Setup.

Main

Menu

System

Configuration

Telephone

Setup

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Netopia R3100 manual Chapter Using SmartPhone for Telephone Services, Specifying telephone connections