Placing And Receiving Calls; Receiving Incoming Calls; Methods For Placing Outgoing Calls; Placing A Host-Controlled Call - Nortel Meridian Installation And Administration Manual

Using the digital telephone

Placing and receiving calls

Place outgoing calls by pressing the calling key to receive an outgoing line.

Receiving incoming calls

A Meridian Digital Telephone IP Adapter unit receives host-controlled
incoming calls over the IP network.

Methods for placing outgoing calls

You can place an outbound call from a Meridian Digital Telephone IP Adapter
unit station in one of the following ways:
method 1: Lift the telephone handset.
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This method automatically initiates a host-controlled call.
method 2: Press the calling key.
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Pressing the host calling key initiates a host-controlled call.

Placing a host-controlled call

To place a host-controlled call, complete the following procedure:
1 Lift the telephone handset or press the host calling key.
Result: You hear a dial tone over a connection with the host PBX.
Note: If a connection to the host PBX cannot be established within a time-
out period or no resources are available to carry the call, you hear a reorder
dial tone (fast busy signal), and one of the following messages appears on
the telephone display:
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Bandwidth limit indicates that there was not enough bandwidth available in
the system to complete to requested task.
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Release and Try Again
Bandwidth Limit
DSP Limit
Meridian Digital Telephone IP Adapter Installation and Administration Guide
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