Optional Features
Feature
Description
Extra Alert
Provide audible or visual signal by means of alerting devices such as bells, horns, or strobe
lights. The system can accommodate alerting devices in up to three different areas of the
building. Your business must supply alerting devices.
• People in noisy areas can better tell when a call is ringing.
Required equipment:
• Use with Enhanced Night Service to alert people who are working late to pick up in-
• Services Module in
coming calls by means of Call Pickup.
control unit
• Extra-alerting
devices
Loudspeaker Page
People can page each other using a loudspeaker paging system. The MERLIN system can
accommodate up to three zones that can be paged individually or together. Your business
Required equipment:
must provide the paging system.
• Services Module in
• People can quickly locate others who are away from their desk or work areas.
control unit
• Provide background music throughout your office or plant.
• Loudspeaker
paging system
Music-on-Hold
Provide callers with music when they are put on hold. Your business provides the music
source (for example, a tape player or FM radio).
Required equipment:
• Reassure callers that they have not been disconnected when they are on hold.
• Services Module in
control unit
• Music source
Night Service, Enhanced
Provide various options for after-hours telephone operation. You can administer any or all
features to meet your needs for alerting and security. Use a button on the attendant con-
sole to turn this feature on and off, or set your system to turn Night Service on and off
(See also Extra Alert.)
automatically at preset times.
With Group Assignment
Specify which voice terminals should ring when calls come in to a particular attendant
console.
• Make it easier for people indifferent areas of your plant or office to answer after-hours
calls placed to their departments or work groups.
With Extra Alert
Provide extra-alerting for up to three areas of your facility.
• Notify people who are working late of incoming calls, even if they are away from their
voice terminals.
With Outward Restriction
Prevent unauthorized use of your telephones outside regular business hours. Authorized
personnel can make calls as usual, but others can only dial emergency numbers.
• Control telephone costs.
• Have the option of using either a password or the Exclusion feature to let staff members
who are working late use their voice terminals as they normally do.
With Time Set
Have the MERLIN system turn Night Service on and off at the times you specify.
• Attendants don’t have to turn Night Service on and off manually.
• Night Service operates automatically during weekends.
Simultaneous Voice and
Make voice and data calls at the same time.
Data Calls
• Obtain data from a computer while you are on the telephone.
Required equipment:
• Make a voice call while you are sending data to someone outside your business.
• General Purpose
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