Nortel Networks BCM1000 manual Glossary

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background music

A feature that plays music from the speaker of your telephone. Background Music is available when you attach a music source to the system and enable the feature under Feature settings in System programming.

base station

This is the radio/telephony unit that allows communication between wireless handsets, such as Companion or DECT, to the Business Communications Manager system.

basic rate interface (BRI)

An ISDN interface that uses two B-channels and a D-channel (2B+D). ETSI BRI is the European Telecommunications Standards Institute specification for BRI ISDN service

baud rate

A unit of measurement of data transmission speed. Baud rate is approximately equivalent to Bits Per Second (BPS). Typical baud rates are 300, 1200, 2400, 4800, and 9600.

BIOS (basic input output system)

A program contained in Read Only Memory (ROM) that acts as the interface between software programs and the computer hardware.

bit

A bit is the smallest unit of information identified by the computer. A bit has one of two values, 0 or 1, to indicate off or on.

Bus

A collection of communication lines that carry electronic signals between components in the system.

Call Forward

A feature that forwards all the calls arriving at a telephone to another telephone in the system. To have calls forwarded outside the system, use Line Redirection.

Call Forward No Answer

A feature that forwards all calls arriving at a telephone to another selected telephone in the system. The system transfers the calls after a specific number of rings. Assign Call Forward No Answer under Capabilities in System DNs programming.

Call Forward On Busy

A feature that forwards all calls at a telephone to another selected telephone if the original telephone is busy. Assign this feature under Capabilities in System DNs programming.

Call Forward Override

An automatic system feature that allows the user to call another user and ask that user to stop forwarding calls to their set.

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