Panasonic KX-TVP150E, Overview

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O-5-4 Overview of VPS Functions
5.1 Glossary
Disk capacity
The amount of space available on the hard disk for use in
storing system programs and data (messages, prompts etc.).
DSP card
Digital Signal Processing Unit card. Digitizes and com-
presses the voice data from the CO card.
DTMF
Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency. See Touch-tone telephone and
Rotary telephone.
Encode
To represent data in digital form for processing.
Erase message
Removes a particular message from the subscribers mail-
box.
External delivery message
A message intended for automatic delivery to a party out-
side of the company.
Fast forward
Puts the user 4 seconds ahead in the current message.
General delivery mailbox
When the caller does not specify a destination mailbox
number or extension number or the caller uses a rotary
telephone, the general delivery mailbox is used for record-
ing messages which are to be heard by the Message Man-
ager or are to be forwarded to a VPS subscriber.
Guest account
A special user mailbox which the subscriber can use to
communicate with a close associate who is not a sub-
scriber.
Guest message
A message left by a subscriber in one of the guest mail-
boxes which he or she has been given.
Guest password
Password given to a subscriber’s guest to protect access to
the guest mailbox of the subscriber.
Hardware
The physical units making up a computer system.
Hash sign
The [#] key on the telephone keypad.
Help
A VPS voice prompt which allows the user to receive the
complete list of available options in the current menu at
any time.
Immediate reply
A feature which allows the message receiver to reply to a
message without specifying the extension number of the
message sender (this information is held by the VPS).