Specifications

50 Digital Family Features
Manager/secretary
A manager with a private secretary or several managers
sharing one secretary can program all calls on their
regular line to ring at the secretary's telephone when
the secretary is at her desk and can program calls to
ring directly at each manager's desk when the secretary
is out of the office. The secretary's telephone can have
a separate DN button for each manager so that she
knows exactly whose call she is answering. Each
manager can have selected internal and external callers
reach her directly, by using a private DN (See Multiple
station appearance, below).
Memory cartridge
To enable simple configuration changes and system
upgrades to the DIGITAL family of systems, all system
programming is contained in a removable memory
cartridge, which is attached to the main processor card.
Modem (internal and external)
Online administration and maintenance procedures can
be carried out from a remote site through a modem
internal to the DIGITAL system or from a user supplied
(external) modem. From the remote site, configurations
can be backed up, restored, or changed, and the error
message history file can be accessed. The internal
modem is a module that snaps onto the Option card.
Multiple appearance of DNs (MDN groups)
A call directed to a group of extensions (MDN groups),
represented by a single Directory Number (DN), may
ring at up to 16 extensions, and flash at an unlimited
number of extensions, simultaneously. A call can ring
at certain stations, and then after a programmed delay,
ring at additional stations. Any extension where the
call rings or has an appearance may answer the call by
pressing the programmed MDN button. There can be
multiple appearances of the same DN in an MDN
group. With the DIGITAL KEY BX system, up to
250 MDN groups can be created, with the DIGITAL
400 system up to 400 groups can be created, and with
the DIGITAL 1000 system up to 997 groups can be
created.
Multiple attendant positions
Up to four attendant positions may be configured in a
DIGITAL KEY BX or DIGITAL 400 system to
provide a high attendant to user ratio, efficient call
traffic management, or up to four operative tenant
exchanges. With the DIGITAL 1000 system, up to 24
attendant positions may be configured.
Multiple station appearance (MSA)
MSA configuration (PBX) mode provides a second
mode of operation to suit a variety of applications.
Incoming calls for any extension can ring and flash,
or just flash at a number of different extensions or, a
call can ring at one station and have a delayed ring at
another station. For example, if the secretary does not
answer the call, it then rings the manager. You can
program stations so that you may only place a call
from a station when a DN button is available.
Therefore, you may assign the DNs of other stations
to a telephone in an MSA group so that any station in
the group can answer incoming calls being transferred
to the group, or can make outgoing calls using another
station's DN. You can have multiple appearances of
the same DN in one MDN group and multiple DN
hunting on the same station.
You can also assign a station a virtual DN to allow you
to access an additional line. Each incoming or outgoing
call is assigned to a button. Depending on which
extension the call is for, a different LED lights so that
the person answering the call knows exactly which
extension is being called. This makes it easy to program
the system so that a secretary can screen calls for one
or more managers (see Manager/secretary, above) or
for a group of employees, e.g. the members of a sales