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76 C HAPTER 7: G ETTING M ORE FROM Y OUR T ELEPHONE S YSTEM
Delayed Ringing (NBX Business Telephone only) The Delayed Ringing feature keeps
your NBX Business Telephone from audibly ringing until the caller has
heard a specified number of rings (typically, 4). During the first “silent”
rings, the line's status light flashes. This feature works on a single NBX
Business Telephone or on “shared” lines, as explained in the examples.
Your administrator specifies the number of silent rings in the NBX NetSet
utility. The choices are Yes (rings always; default), No (never rings), or
1 through 9 (that is, ringing is delayed for from 1 to 9 rings).
Examples:
■ In a hospital setting where it is important to keep the area as quiet as
possible, all station appearances on an NBX Business Telephone at a
nurse's station have Delayed Ringing set to 6 rings. The nurse can see
from the flashing status light that a call is coming in and pick up the
call before it disturbs the patients.
■ A manager and assistant have a shared line by means of a bridged
station appearance on NBX Business Telephones. (See
“Bridged
Extensions” earlier in this chapter.) The administrator can specify
Delayed Ringing for the manager's line that is bridged, that is, on the
primary telephone. When a call comes in, the manager's status light
flashes but the telephone does not ring. The call also comes in on the
assistant's telephone (the secondary telephone), where it audibly
rings. Because of the flashing status light, the manager knows that a
call is coming in and can pick up the call if the assistant is busy or
away from the telephone. After the specified number of “delayed”
rings, the manager's telephone also begins to ring.
■ In a small business, a single incoming analog line is shared by (mapped
to) all three telephones in the store. The administrator can set the line
on the manager's telephone to Delayed Ringing and “No.” This
setting means that the manager's telephone never rings audibly,
although the status light flashes. Incoming calls always ring audibly on
the other two telephones.
To prevent a call from going to your call coverage point before it rings
audibly on the line that has Delayed Ringing set, ask your administrator to
set the number of rings for Delayed Ringing to be lower than the number
that you have set in the NBX NetSet utility for Call Forwarding.