Polycom KIRK Wireless Server 500 User Manual page 2

Welcome
Thank you for your purchase of the KIRK Wireless Server 500 (KWS500). The KWS500 is a
telecommunications computer that is wired to your host PBX
for KIRK Handsets . This user guide will walk you through the preparation and installation of
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your KWS500, and the activation and programming of up to eight KIRK Handsets.
How to use the guide
This guide is divided into several sections. Please read and understand the steps described in
these sections before attempting to perform the actions. It is important to complete each of these
sections in sequence:
Getting Started – installation overview and requirements.
Site Preparation – how to prepare your host PBX and plan a successful installation of the
KWS500.
Installation – how to install the KWS500 hardware.
Handset Programming – how to activate and remove handsets.
Special Features – how to activate some of the more popular handset features.
Icons and Conventions
This manual uses the following icons and conventions.
Caution! Follow these instructions carefully to avoid danger.
Note these instructions carefully.
This typeface indicates a label on the KWS500, or a key, label, button or screen
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display on a KIRK Handset.
Private Branch eXchange, a telephone switching system located at a business office. A PBX can
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use a microprocessor and a telephone line distribution frame to provide internal station-to-station
communications, as well as access to outside telephone lines and special features such as
conference calling and voice mail.
Low-power two-way radio that connects a wireless telephone to the wired telephone system, such
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as a PBX, through a wired computer (Central Control Unit). Base stations commonly broadcast at a
power level of 250 milliwatts and have a maximum range of several hundred feet.
Two-way radio that is similar to a cell phone and communicates with a radio base station
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connected to a wired telephone network.
KIRK Wireless Server 500 User Guide
and serves as a radio base station
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