Access 3000 Compact Supervisor’s Guide
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SECTION 1
INTRODUCTION TO PAGING
1.1
Introduction to Radio Paging
The ability to contact people quickly is important in today’s business environment.
A radio paging system can play an essential role in communications efficiency.
When a key person needs to be contacted and cannot be found at their normal
location, a paging call can be sent. The pager user will then receive a signal
alerting them that someone wants to make contact. This signal can be coded to
denote what action needs to be taken, e.g. call the operator, contact a colleague
or proceed to a particular location. Only the person paged receives the message,
other people are not disturbed.
Different types of pager enable people to be contacted in a variety of ways. For
example, by tone signals, by a display of numbers, such as a telephone number
to call, by display of a text message (‘Call Reception’), or even by a spoken
message. Access 3000 Compact, depending on receiver type, can support either
one-way or full two-way speech messaging. Furthermore, when discrete contact
is required or where the surrounding noise level is too high, the user can be
alerted by a flashing light or vibrating pager.
Pagers are not just used for person-to-person contact but also to contact teams
of people, or for machinery, computer or alarm systems to pass information to
people.
1.2
Your Access 3000 Compact Equipment
Your new paging system is designed to allow you to make paging calls from your
telephone, computer using Access 3000 Server or the Access 3000 Management
Terminal as well as from the operator console. It comprises the following
equipment.
A number of pagers, which receive paging calls.
A transmitter to send out the paging calls.
An encoder; this is the heart of the system, which controls the paging facilities
available. It also has an integral display and keyboard, incorporating a
microphone and speaker for one and two-way speech paging calls.
