Talkswitch 24-CA, 48-CA/CVA manual Connecting incoming telephone lines

1.8.1 Connecting incoming telephone lines

Advisory: In order to minimize disruption to your business, you may want to configure TalkSwitch before connecting it to your telephone lines and extension phones.

1.Choose a convenient wall jack to attach to your TalkSwitch and connect your telephone lines.

2.Connect the TalkSwitch unit to the telephone company’s line sockets using the dual-wire telephone cables provided. Take note of which telephone line is connected to each line port. This information will be used in the configuration section.

•Connect the first incoming phone line to L1.

•Connect the second incoming line to L2.

If you have a unit with more than two incoming lines, connect your RJ-11 telephone lines, beginning with L1. If you have two lines out of one phone jack, you will require a dual-to-two-single-line adapter or replace the two-line cord with two single-line cords. Note that L3 and L4 do not exist on units with only two incoming line connectors.

All incoming calls will be routed to the extension phones by TalkSwitch. Call handling includes call forwarding, transferring, voicemail, etc. Incoming lines are not directly connected to any of the local extensions. The software determines which incoming lines are routed to which local extensions.

1.8.2 Connecting local extension telephones and other devices

Connect your single-line analog device to one of the unit extension jacks the same way you would plug it into a standard telephone wall jack.

You can connect any regular analog extension telephone set, cordless telephone or fax machine to the extension ports, E1-E4 (all unit models) and E5-E8 (for unit models with more than four extension jacks).

1.Plug each internal telephone into extensions beginning with E1. Connect a phone to E4 to ensure communication during a power failure.

2.If required, plug the fax line into E3 or E8.

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