Instruction manual

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 as a switch, turning auxiliary equipment on and off, as well as putting the

system into Night Service.

NOTE:

If you have PARTNER MAIL, turning Night Service on also activates Night

Service operation of the PARTNER MAIL System.

Figure 4-12 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.

Lines

Ext

FAX

Ext

CONTROL

UNIT

MODEM

Ext

Figure 4-12. Night Service with Fax Machine and Modem

To Use

During the day, lines A and B do not ring at extensions X and Y (according to

Line Ringing settings). 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). All lines ring at the system phone at extension Z.

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 an AT&T answering machine with the Call Intercept feature,

the answering machine drops off the call when you join it.

Using Auxiliary Equipment

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