Auxiliary Equipment
You can connect many types of telecommunications devices to your system
without expensive adapters or additional phone lines—for example, answering
machines, credit card scanners, and fax machines. Many industry-standard,
single-line devices will work with the system regardless of the manufacturer.
For more information, refer to the list in Chapter 4 or contact your Lucent
Technologies Representative or local Authorized Dealer. Also, see Chapter 4 for
advice on setting up auxiliary equipment to work effectively with the system.
Requirements
An industry-standard device must meet the following conditions:
It must be nonproprietary. That is, it cannot be made specifically for use
on a particular telephone system. (For example, you cannot connect a
Lucent Technologies MERLIN® system phone, because it is specifically
designed for use on a MERLIN system.)
Its Ringer Equivalence Number (REN
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) cannot be greater than 2.0. (The
REN is shown on a label on the device, usually on the bottom.)
You can connect a standard two-line device to the system, but for best
results it should be installed and used as if it were a single-line device.
Connecting Standard Devices
You can connect a standard device so that it is on an extension by itself, or so
that it shares an extension with another piece of equipment (either another
standard device or a system phone) as long as the REN of the two devices
together does not exceed 2.0. (System phones have 0.0 REN.) For example,
you can connect a standard phone and an answering machine to the same
extension. An extension with two devices connected to it is called a
combination
extension. You cannot connect two system phones on one extension. The
PARTNER Advanced Communications System Installation guide provides
installation instructions.
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REN is a measure of the power it takes to ring a phone. The typical home phone line supports 4.0–5.0 RENs;
each extension jack in your system handles up to 2.0 RENs.
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