Chapter 5 Working With Phones; Phone Setup Choices - Axia Fusion Installation And User Manual

Chapter 5
Working With Phones
One of the advantages of a Livewire studio is the smooth integration of Telos telephone interface equipment with
the mixing console. Console telephone control modules let operators work phone without taking their eyes or hands
off the console; mix-minus is handled automatically, and each fader has its own mix-minus capability, so you will
never run out of busses.
Since advanced Telos telephone interfaces have Ethernet connections, they integrate easily with Axia networks,
exchanging control signaling between console and phone system without the need for the usual parallel connections.
This Chapter describes how to configure your console for use with Telos talkshow systems. But even if you don't
own a Telos phone system, GPIO control of telephone equipment without a Livewire interface is also possible; refer
to the GPIO chapter for details.
For details on how to use the Fusion Call Controller module to control multi-line phone systems directly from
your console, please refer to the chapter entitled Operations, earlier in this manual.

Phone Setup Choices

There are three methods of setting up phone control with the Fusion console. These methods are referred to as:
• EU Phone (networked)
• US Phone (networked)
• No Phone Control (GPIO enabled control)
EU Phone is the method most used in European countries, wherein a single line is assigned to a single hybrid.
This is also known as "hybrid per fader" mode; that is, there is no switching between multiple lines on a single
hybrid. Each line is presented on its own dedicated console fader. If four phone lines are desired for use, each line's
hybrid is presented on a separate fader. No on-console line controller module is used.
US Phone is the method most common in North America, where the operator has the ability to choose between
multiple incoming lines to feed the telephone hybrid. Commonly, two hybrids are presented on separate faders, and
the user dynamically switches between incoming lines; the Fusion Phone Controller module is used for this mode of
operation.
Most Telos multi-line call systems support both of these two methods.
No Phone Control is a way of controlling third-party hybrids which do not work with Telos control protocols;
instead, basic GPIO closures are used to "take" and "drop" lines.
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