Instruction manual
Page 1343 of 3156
Features and Services
Distinctive/New Distinctive Ringing
Contents
The following are the topics in this section:
Feature description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343
New Distinctive Ringing . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1344
Distinctive Ringing for Dial Intercom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1344
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1344
Feature interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1344
Feature packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1346
Feature implementation . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347
Task summary list . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347
Feature operation . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1349
Feature description
In commercial applications, the ability to have telephones with a distinctive
ring is useful for distinguishing various call types. The Distinctive Ringing
capability is enabled for specific trunk groups.
The Tone and Digit Switch (TDS) card provides Meridian 1 proprietary
telephones with distinctive ringing cadence. This card provides a distinctive
ringback tone of 440 Hz + 480 Hz on incoming calls on the designated trunks,
timed for 1.64 on and 0.36 off. On single-line telephones, the normal ringing
pattern is 2 on and 4 off. Distinctive Ringing for single-line telephones is 1.54
on and 0.38 off.