VERSA-LINK ATX-250
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EQUIPMENT
Your Versa-Link ATX-250 is compatible with virtually all modern telecommunications
equipment, including single and multi-line telephones . Because your ATX-250 is
installed between your telephone system and the phone company, it can direct all your
telephone traffic to the proper equipment . The most popular types of equipment used
with a Versa-Link ATX-250 are described below .
2. FAX MACHINES
Your ATX-250 has special features that work extremely well with FAX machines and
PC FAX Boards . The Auto FAX Detection feature allows most FAX calls to transfer to
your FAX machine automatically .
The vast majority of FAX machines sold today have the ability to dial the number of
the receiving FAX from memory, and then identify itself as a FAX machine with a
tone (called CNG tone or AUTO-FAX tone) . It will then continue to identify itself until
the called FAX answers the call . When an ATX-250 is used at the receiving end, it
can detect this FAX identification tone, and automatically transfer the call to the FAX
machine on the receiving end, without ringing the telephone .
Occasionally, calls will come from a FAX machine without a FAX identification tone .
This may happen if the calling person is using an older FAX machine, or dials the
number manually using the FAX handset . In most applications, calls without this
auto-FAX tone will be routed to your telephone system . The call can be manually
transferred to the FAX machine by dialing (or another selected code) on your
telephone keypad . Either the caller or the person who answers can transfer the call .
See section 4 .2 .2 for details of operation .
If possible, ask people who send you FAX messages to program your number into
their FAX machine’s memory . This will allow FAX calls to always be processed auto-
matically .
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