Night Service with Auxiliary Equipment
You can set up modems, fax machines, and answering machines to receive calls
automatically after hours. When Night Service is on, calls ring immediately at the
appropriate extensions, so that no human intervention is required to transfer calls
to the fax, modem, or answering machine. When Night Service is off, you can
use the auxiliary equipment lines for normal business purposes, so that lines are
dedicated to auxiliary equipment
only after hours.
By putting auxiliary equipment in the Night Service Group as described in this
section, auxiliary equipment can start ringing and answering calls whenever you
turn Night Service on. In other words, the Night Service button at extension 10
acts like a switch, turning auxiliary equipment on and off, as well as putting the
system into Night Service.
NOTE:
If you have a voice messaging system, turning Night Service on
also activates
Night Service operation of the voice messaging system.
Figure 4-13 shows a system with a fax machine and a modem connected to
separate extensions. Line A is published as the fax line, and line B is published
as the modem line.
Figure 4-13. Night Service with Fax Machine and Modem
Using Night Service with Auxiliary Equipment
During the day, lines A and B do not ring at extensions X and Y. When you turn
Night Service on, calls on line A ring immediately at the fax (extension X). Since
that line is not assigned to any other extension in the Night Service Group, only
extension X receives fax transmissions. Likewise, with Night Service on, calls on
line B ring immediately at the modem (extension Y).
NOTE:
If answering machines are connected to Night Service extensions, you can join
a call that was already answered by an answering machine from any system
phone. If you have a Lucent Technologies answering machine with the Call
Intercept feature, the answering machine drops off the call when you join it.
Lines
Ext
X
FAX
Ext
Y
A
B
C
MODEM
CONTROL
UNIT
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Using Auxiliary Equipment
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