Lucent Technologies 8.2 User Manual

Issue 1

April 2000

Features and technical reference 

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Ringing — Abbreviated and Delayed 

Ring types fall into two categories:

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Those that alert  consistently and don’t change:

— Ringing, in which the lamp flashes and audible ringing occurs

— Silent ringing, in which the lamp flashes and audible ringing does 

not occur

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Those that transition from one ringing state to another:

— Abbreviated ringing, in which ringing continues for as many cycles 

as specified by the automatic abbreviated/delayed transition interval 
and then changes to silent alerting

— Delayed ringing, in which visual alerting continues for as many 

cycles as specified by the automatic abbreviated/delayed transition 
interval and then changes to ringing

For a station with call appearances that have either abbreviated or delayed ringing, 
an abbreviated-ring button associated with that station’s extension can be assigned 
on a different station. When one of those call appearances is being alerted, 
pressing the button forces immediate transition of the alerting — that is, from 
ringing to silence or from silence to ringing.

This feature is most useful in bridging situations in which some users want to be:

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Audibly alerted to a call immediately upon its arrival

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Audibly notified if the call has not been answered within a specified 
number of rings or if they have indicated.

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Able to stop the audible alerting if the call is not being answered by the 
principal and the user is not able to answer the call.

Because ring type can be specified on a per-station basis, mixing ring-type 
specifications within a station’s access to a particular extension is possible.

For Ringing — Abbreviated and Delayed, each call appearance must be:

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Assigned a ring type

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Administered to transition when the:

— Abbreviated/delayed transition interval is reached or when the user 

presses the abbreviated ring button

—  user presses the abbreviated ring button, regardless of the 

abbreviated/delayed transition interval