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Common "Phone Talk" - Telephone Telecommunication Lingo
- Analog Phone Line - POTS
- POTS is an acronym for plain old telephone service, which refers to the standard low speed, analog telephone service that is still used by most homes and many businesses.
The term is sometimes used to distinguish that service from the newer telecommunications services which are digital and have much larger bandwidths.
- Digital Phone System
- Telecommunications system with multi button telephone sets on which more than one outside line terminates, allowing several people to answer or use more than one line.
An in house telephone system that is not centrally connected to a PBX.
Also known as a "key system," each telephone has buttons for outside lines that can be dialed directly without having to "dial 9 or punch a key."
A phone system could be analog or digital look at the analog or digital section for more info.
Phone system typically used in small office environments.
- Do i have Digital Phone System or Analog Phone Line?
- Analog lines also referred to as POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service), support standard phones, fax machines, and modems. These are the lines typically found in your home or small office.
Digital lines are found in large, corporate phone systems.
How do you tell if the phone line is analog or digital? One way is to look at the back of the telephone connected to it. If you see "complies with part 68, FCC Rules" and a Ringer Equivalence Number (REN), then the phone and the line are analog.
You can also, look at the phone's dial pad. Are there multiple function keys? Do you need to dial "9" or punch a key for an outside line? These are indicators that the phone and the line are digital.
- Phone Monitoring Software
- Phone monitoring software lets you manually or automatically record telephone calls on a line connected to a voice modem on your computer.
sometimes a phone adapter is needed to connect your phone socket to the voice card on your computer.
All calls are recorded with caller ID details (where available) and logged.
The recorded messages can be viewed edited and emailed.
Archiving is easy and simple and can be searched through by Date, Time and Duration and then burnt to CD for storage.
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