User's Manual

Polycom SpectraLink 8400 Series Wireless Handset
48 April, 2011 | 1725-36720-001_RevB
Paging Groups
The following paging group types are available:
Emergency pages Every phone will receive this page and play it at the highest audio level. If a phone is
active on a call using the speakerphone, the Emergency page will be heard on the speaker. If Do Not
Disturb is enabled, the Emergency page will be heard on the speaker. The audio level will return to
normal for the subsequent non-Emergency pages.
Priority pages Pages from this group are received by all phones unless Do Not Disturb is enabled or an
Emergency page is already playing. Priority pages are played at the current audio level.
Normal pages For pages from these groups, the first page received is accepted; all others are ignored
(not played and not stored). The administrator can provide a label for groups 1 to 23. The label identifies
the type and can comprise up to 15 characters. The label for Group 1, ALL, is defined by default.
Note that groups 24 and 25 are reserved for Priority and Emergency pages respectively.
Sending and Receiving a Page
At the start of a page, a repetitive set of alert messages is sent to ensure that receiving phones are ready
to receive the page. When the page cell first displays, it will briefly show the word Preamble. The
transmission can start after the preamble period.
Sending a Page
You initiate pages by pressing the Features soft key and then selecting the Paging option, the paging
group, and then pressing the Page soft key. A page displays as a call appearance, indicating the page
sender and paging group. The audio signal continues until the sender or the user terminates the page.
The page terminates for everyone in the group when the sender presses the End key. An individual can
end the page on a single handset by pressing the End key.
To send a page:
1 To send a page, press the Features > Paging soft key.