Alcatel 100 - Glossary

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Glossary
Answering a night call:
This functions enables you to answer a call signalled by the general bell.
Broker call:
Function enabling the user to switch back and forth between several simultaneous calls.
Call transfer:
Function enabling a call to be transferred to another telephone within the system.
Conference:
The conference function allows the user, in contact with two correspondents, to set up a
three-way conference.
DECT:
European cordless telephone standard: Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication.
DECT telephone: cordless telephone complying with the DECT standard.
Enquiry call:
This function allows a user who is communicating with one correspondent to contact a
second correspondent without losing the first one.
Filtering:
This function, offered to "boss/secretary" tandems, enables calls intended for the boss's
terminal to be directed to the terminal of one or more secretaries.
General bell:
If the operator is absent, the internal and external calls intended for the operator are
linked to an external signalling system that enables any authorized terminal to answer
these calls.
Hold:
This function enables a correspondent to be placed on hold while you carry out another
operation before picking up the correspondent again from the same terminal.
Hunting group:
Several telephones grouped under one directory number. A call to this number is directed
to one of the free telephones within the group.
Interphone:
This function enables you to receive internal calls in interphone mode by connecting them
automatically to the loudspeaker.
Intrusion:
This function allows you to interrupt a call between two correspondents (of whom at
least one is internal).
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