AT&T 1987 AT&T Telephone User Manual


 
TRANSFER TO DATA
Description
Allows multiline voice terminal users to originate or answer a call from their voice terminals
and then establish a data connection by transferring the call to a data terminal. This
feature was formerly called One-Button Transfer to Data (V1).
(Refer also to the overview of the system’s data features provided in the “Data Services
Overview” description.)
Data terminal calls can be set up from a multiline voice terminal with a DATA button. The
DATA button is associated by Data Dial Code (DDC) with a digital data endpoint. A
separate DATA button must be provided for each data terminal that the voice terminal can
transfer calls to.
The DATA button status LED provides status indications for the data endpoint:
Dark–Data endpoint is idle
Winking–Data endpoint is reserved
Flashing–Data endpoint is being alerted to an incoming call
Steadily Lighted–Data endpoint off-hook (busy).
The DATA button status LED will wink only when a voice terminal reserves a data endpoint
by Data Call Preindication.
Data Call Origination Using Transfer to Data
A voice terminal user, after calling a DDC or a PDC (to reach an analog data endpoint)
receives either answer tone or called party answer, respectively. The user then transfers the
call to the associated data terminal by pressing DATA and hanging up. The called party
may also use Transfer To Data to transfer the call to a data terminal.
An inside call cannot be transferred via Transfer To Data until the far end answers.
If a handshake failure occurs after Transfer To Data, the data call will be disconnected and
the data terminal left in the idle (on-hook) state.
Note: Even if the associated data port is optioned for autobaud, the call will be set up
at the highest common speed that the calling and called data terminals are
administered for, independent of the current data terminal settings.
Data Call Preindication
A multiline voice terminal user, by going off-hook and pressing an idle DATA button, may
indicate that a data call will be attempted. This reserves the associated data port and a
modem pool conversion resource.
This procedure is recommended when the data call is a
trunk call. The data port reservation is acknowledged by a winking status LED at the
DATA button. Subsequently, invoking Transfer To Data transfers the call to the associated
data terminal.
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