
sine waves, that can be heard by human ears.
‘Extensions’ jacks located on the back panel of your TalkSwitch.
Digitize
To translate into a digital form. For example, optical scanners digitize images by translating them into bit maps. It is also possible to digitize sound, video, and any type of movement. In all these cases, digitization is performed by sampling at discrete intervals. To digitize sound, for example, a device measures a sound wave’s amplitude many times per second. These numeric values can then be recorded digitally.
Distinctive Ring
The ability to have more than one telephone number that callers can dial to reach the same telephone line. Each Distinctive Ring number has a distinctive ring cadence or ring sequence. TalkSwitch recognizes Distinctive Ring 1 as 2 short rings. Distinctive Ring 2 is identified as 3 short rings. (Distinctive Ring is also referred to as:
Driver
A program that controls a device. Every device, whether it is a printer, disk drive, or keyboard, must have a driver program. A driver acts like a translator between the device and programs that use the device.
DTMF
Dual Tone
Extension (Local)
A Local Extension is any telephone or analog device (answering machine, fax, etc.) that is plugged into one of the
Extension (Remote)
A call forwarding number that can be any telephone number, in any location.
FCC
Federal Communications Commission. The FCC is the United States federal regulatory agency responsible for the regulation of interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
Firmware
Firmware is a combination of software and hardware. More precisely, it is software (programs or data) that has been written onto hardware
Flash button
A button on your telephone. Pressing the Flash button has the same effect as press- ing the Link button or depressing and releasing the ‘hang up’ (switch) hook on a telephone. All of these actions will send a signal to TalkSwitch to put calls on or off hold.
Home phone
A home phone is any telephone using the same telephone line as one of TalkSwitch’s Lines, but is not plugged directly into the back of TalkSwitch as an extension.
Icon
A small picture that represents a program, action or feature in the config- uration software. When you click on an icon, that program, action or
feature is activated.