3Com 3106c User Guide - Page 99

Bridged Extensions 99 Bridged Extensions With a bridged extension, buttons and status lights on one telephone are associated with buttons and status lights on another telephone. On the primary telephone, you can perform all operations (such as dialing telephone calls, placing calls on hold, forwarding calls, and so on). On the secondary telephone, you can answer calls that are made to the primary telephone's extension but you cannot make calls using the buttons that are associated with the primary telephone. The administrator can create bridged extensions to the 3Com Cordless Telephone's third and fourth Access buttons, if an NBX Attendant Console is associated with it. The administrator creates the bridged extensions on the Attendant Console. See "Programmable Access Buttons" in Chapter 2 for more information about Access buttons. Example: If an assistant's job is to answer a manager's telephone calls, the administrator can map the manager's extension on the assistant's telephone. The manager's telephone is the primary telephone, and the assistant's telephone is the secondary telephone. Your administrator can map a primary telephone's extension to one or more secondary telephones. Using Pulse Dialing In some locations, analog telephone users must dial telephone calls using pulse dialing instead of tone dialing (also called Dual Tone Multi Frequency, or DTMF, dialing). Your administrator must configure the Analog Line Card ports for pulse dialing. Examples: ■ Some of your telephone lines are provided by a telephone company that supports only pulse dialing while other lines are provided by a different telephone company that supports DTMF dialing. ■ Your organization's telephone service provider offers low-cost, pulse-dialing-only service.