Specifications

Wait For Answer
The ARD Wait For Answer Feature sets the maximum time the system will wait for an answer signal or
user activity before it cancels the ARD action after it redials the number. If neither call answer not user
activity occurs, the system terminates the call and retries the call unless the maximum number of retries has
been reached.
If the line provides busy detection, the system disconnects the call and provides a five second busy tone to
the calling station. In this situation, the calling station remains in the redial mode until the busy tone stops.
Any user activity during this period deactivates ARD for the number.
ARD Retry Delay
The ARD Retry Delay feature sets the time the system waits before redialing a number or between redialing
one number and the next when multiple ARDs are active. If ARD activity is suspended at the time the retry
delay timer expires, the number to be redialed next remains at the top of the queue to be redialed first when
ARD resumes.
ARD Retries
The ARD Retries feature sets the maximum times the system will automatically redial a queued number.
Automatic Reports
This feature makes the system automatically generate selected station message detail accounting and call
costing reports for printing on a daily or weekly basis. The installer sets the time that the report is to be printed,
sets the type of report to be printed, and dictates whether the call records are to be erased from the system
memory after they have been printed.
Automatic Route Selection
Automatic Route Selection (ARS) allows the system to automatically select the least costly line group available
to a station to route a call. The system modifies the dialed number, if needed, to match the selected line group.
Additionally, ARS provides the costing information for the dialed call that is reported by the station message
detail accounting feature. ARS makes routing decisions (which lines to route a call over, if and how to modify a
number, and costing information) based entirely upon the programming of the system.
When the ARS feature is active, the user selects ARS by dialing 9. Because direct line selection by the user
bypasses the ARS route selection feature, the installer normally does not give stations direct line appearance
when ARS is part of the system operation.
The ARS feature can operate with the toll restriction feature or independently from it; however, both features
use the same entry table for programming. The installer enables or disables automatic route selection on a
system-wide basis. A defaulted system has ARS disabled.
The installer must program a number and the proper routing information before the system can perform ARS on
that number when it is dialed. The installer generally arranges routing from the least costly routing method to
the most costly routing method. The cost of the route is determined by the line group over which the call is
routed.
General Description 6 – 13
General Description GCA40–215