Chapter 5 - Special Applications; Overview; Private Networking - Panasonic DBS 576HD Technical Manual

Chapter 5 - Special Applications

Overview

The DBS 576HD is designed to accommodate a wide variety of features as described throughout this
document. However, this powerful phone system is also designed to support fast-emerging
technological trends and specialized 3rd-party product integrations. Listed below are some examples.

Private Networking

Companies with two or more offices can benefit from the DBS 576HD's powerful networking features
by establishing private phone connections between the sites. Typically, companies with multiple sites
have a high level of call traffic between them, resulting in astronomical phone bills if they're using the
public switching network (COs). In a private network, however, the company pays a fixed rental fee for
the private lines, regardless of how often they are used. In fact, the more they're used, the more
money the company saves. A private network also provides other benefits, such as increased
efficiency by allowing the user to dial an extension number instead of a long-distance number.
Multiple sites (called "nodes") can be tied together through network trunk lines, so that (for example)
when one site closes for the day, another node across the country can pick up their calls. Network
users can also turn a long-distance call into a local one, by accessing another (long-distance) node
and then dialling the (local) number.
The DBS 576HD can provide networking features such as:
Network Call Transfers. Allows a call at an extension to be transferred to an extension in
another network PBX.
Network Extension Calling. Allows you to reach an extension on another DBS 576HD. Based
on the number you dial, the DBS 576HD network routes the call automatically.
Network Paging. Allows users on one DBS 576HD system to page on another DBS 576HD,
when the appropriate Class of Service allows.
Network Call Routing ("Closed Numbering"). Allows multiple systems that are interconnected
in a network, to direct calls to a specific tie line based on the number dialed (the call does not
leave the network). This allows intercom calls to be conducted between locations that would
normally be considered long-distance calling.
Tandem Connection. Allows calls over network tie lines to be automatically routed to another
PBX, out to the public network, or to internal extensions. The tandem relay function increases
network efficiency via automatic routing methods between multiple PBXs, thus reducing the
number of tie lines needed.
Centralized Attendant. Via tie-line routing, operator calls and associated operator functions
(paging, transfer, reversion for unanswered calls) are performed from one Attendant position in
the network.
Centralized Voice Mail. One voice mail system, installed in one of the network PBXs, serves all
extensions in the network. The functions needed for voice mail operation (Call Forwarding to the
user's mailbox, Priority Message-Waiting to indicate the mailbox message on the user's phone,
and MSG ID Notification for accessing the mailbox and retrieving messages) are simply
programmed to be routed over the tie lines.
Network BLF (Busy Lamp Field). Using special software and Client and Server PCs connected to
the IP network, one or more attendants can monitor the status of any extension in a physically
separated, networked system. Attendants can use any phones or PCs located in the system.
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