AT&T 1987 AT&T Telephone User Manual


 
Attendant Console
Direct Trunk or Switched Loop Attendant Console: An electronic
call-handling position
with pushbutton control.
Used by attendants to
answer and place calls and to manage and monitor some system operations.
Direct Extension Selector Console: Provides the attendant with a visual
indication of the active or idle status of extension numbers assigned in the
system. Also allows the attendant to place calls to system users by operation
of appropriate
Hundreds Group Select buttons and associated Direct
Extension Selection (DXS) buttons.
Auxiliary Equipment
Dictation Equipment
Delay Announcement Devices
External Alerting Devices (external alerts)
Music-On-Hold Equipment
Paging Equipment
Auxiliary Trunk
A trunk circuit used to connect auxiliary equipment to the switch, for example, music
or dictation equipment.
BLF: (Busy Lamp Field)
BPS: (Bits Per Second)
Bit (Binary Digit)
One unit of information in binary notation (having two possible states or values, zero
or one).
Bridge (Bridging)
The sharing of the same extension by two or more voice terminals.
Buffer
A circuit or component that isolates one electrical circuit from another. Typically, a
buffer holds data from one circuit or process until another circuit or process is ready
to accept the data.
Bus
A multi-conductor electrical path used to transfer information over a common
connection from any of several sources to any of several destinations.
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