Call Waiting
With the Call Waiting feature, you can get a notification about another incoming call even when
you are on a call. If this feature is enabled, the caller is put on waiting instead of hearing a busy
tone.
The phone displays incoming call screen, plays incoming call ringtone, and the beacon LED
flashes.
Enabling and disabling the Call Waiting feature
Procedure
1.
Press Main menu.
2. Scroll to Features, and press Select.
3. Scroll to Call waiting, and press one of the following:
• Enable: To enable the Call Waiting feature.
• Disable: To disable the Call Waiting feature.
Distinctive Ringing
With the Distinctive Ringing feature, you can assign a different call ringtone for the following
features.
• Priority Alert Ringing: To assign a different ringtone as a priority notification for specific
incoming calls by contrast to normal calls.
• Alternate Number Ringing: To enable a different ringtone for alternate numbers of a contact.
• Ring Splash: To enable a short ringtone as a reminder on the phone when you enable
features like Call Forwarding Always, Call Forwarding Selective, and Do Not Disturb.
• Silent Alerting: To disable the audio notification and to get a visual notification of an incoming
call.
• Distinctive Alert Waiting Tone: To set a distinctive ringtone for the caller when the called party
is busy. The called party is alerted with a call waiting tone.
Setting a distinctive ring tone
About this task
Use this procedure to set a ring tone for different uses.
Call Waiting
April 2021 Using Avaya J169 and J179 SIP IP Phones in Open SIP 85
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