Inter-Tel AXXESS - Paging

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System Features
INTER-TEL
®
AXXESS
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MANUAL VERSION 11.0 – May 2008
Paging
44. PAGING
44.1 The Paging feature allows announcements to be made through phone internal speakers.
Optional external paging equipment (amplifiers and paging speakers) may also be installed
three ways:
• Using the external paging port on the CPC or CPU card (see INSTALLATION on
page 3-242)
• Using internal speaker leads in the phone (see INSTALLATION on page 3-242)
• Using non-T1, analog loop start or ground start trunk circuits (see INSTALLATION on
page 3-242).
44.2 There can be up to 10 paging zones. When the system is in the default state, all phones
are assigned to paging zone 1 to provide an all-page zone. Phones, trunks, and the external
paging port(s) can be assigned to any, all, or none of the paging zones, as desired.
NOTE: Placing a large number of phones in a paging zone may affect system performance. If
system operation is affected when a page is placed to a particular page zone, remove some
phones from that zone or change to external paging for the area served by that page zone.
44.3 In a network, all phones and trunks within a page zone must reside on the same node as
the page zone. However, a page zone can contain external page ports on other nodes.
NOTE: Because the external paging ports have intercom numbers – 91000 - 91003 [99000 -
99003 in Europe], stations can place an intercom call to the external paging ports, instead of
using the Page feature, to make a page over the external paging speakers.
44.4 Pages are not heard on phones that have been removed from paging (using the feature
code as described below), are in do-not-disturb, are ringing, or are in use. Also, background
music on phones and on external speakers connected to phone speaker leads is interrupted for
pages. If a trunk in a paging zone is unplugged, the page cannot be completed.
44.5 If desired, phone users can program feature buttons to select the paging zones 0-9 or
0-49 using paging access codes 9600-9609 or 9600-9649 (respectively).
44.6 The Page timer limits the length of pages. If it is set to 0, pages are unlimited in length.
44.7 To make a page:
1. Lift the handset.
2. Phone: Press the PAGE button, or enter the Page feature code (7). The display shows
SELECT PAGE ZONE # (0-9).
Single-Line Set: Enter the Page feature code (7).
3. Enter the zone code (0-9 or 0-49) for the desired zone.
4. After the single progress tone, make your page before the Page timer expires. If you
hear reorder tones and the display shows PAGE ZONE NOT PROGRAMMED, there
are no stations in the selected page zone. If the display shows PAGE ZONE BUSY
TRY AGAIN LATER, the necessary system resources are busy or the paging zone is
being used by another station. Users cannot camp on to or queue the paging system.
5. Hang up.