AT&T Lucent Technologies PARTNER Plus Installation And Use Manual page 83

Personal Answering Machine
Answering Machine Backup for Fax Machine
5-8 Using Auxiliary Equipment
A personal answering machine is used to answer all the calls that ring on the
lines at a certain extension (Figure 5-6). It is useful for the following situations:
When you don't want to dedicate an extension to an answering machine
When the extension receives a lot of intercom calls
When outside calls come through a receptionist and are transferred to the
extension
When an extension has a private line.
To retrieve messages:
From inside the system, make an intercom call to the extension. When the
machine answers, dial the retrieval code.
From outside the system, call in and have someone transfer you to the exten-
sion. When the machine answers, dial the message retrieval code. Or, call
in after hours, when no one will answer before the answering machine does.
If you do not want an incoming fax call to go unanswered because your fax
machine is out of paper, you can back up the fax machine with an answering
machine. With this setup, in the event that your fax machine does not answer,
the call is switched over to the answering machine. The answering machine
plays a message like: "The fax machine is busy—please call back in five
minutes."
Figure 5-7 shows how to set up the fax machine and answering machine on
separate extensions.