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PBX Feature

PABX feature : Call Whispering

by Uttam Pegu on February 21, 2010

What is Call Whisper ?
Call whisper, also known as call screening, is an advanced PBX feature for incoming calls which allows called party to know in voice which number caller has dialed. During ringing and before call s established, called party is “whispered” or informed in voice about the caller as well as [...]

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Call parking feature of PBX

by Uttam Pegu on February 2, 2010

What is call parking ?
Call parking is an interesting feature available in modern EPABX, also known as PBX(Private Branch Exchange), which allows a person to put an active call on hold and then retrieve the same call from another telephone number or extension.
Normally, this is activated by any of the parties, either calling party [...]

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Conference Facility : PBX feature

by Uttam Pegu on January 12, 2010

What is call conference ?
Call conference can be defined as talking three or more people talking on phone after connection. Normally, calling party dials another number after putting the present call on hold by pressing flash (pressing flash button or pressing disconnect button for fraction of second, mobile phones normally have hold function) and adds [...]

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Auto Attendant : Smart feature in a PBX system

by Uttam Pegu on December 23, 2009

Auto attendant ( Automated Attendant) feature, also known as digital receptionist is smart feature in a digital PABX systems. This works like IVR system where it plays a recorded message for dialing extension number when some one calls any line connected to the trunk ports of PABX system. This feature helps call transferring to [...]

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Call hunting : a smart feature in modern PBX

by Uttam Pegu on December 14, 2009

What is call hunting ?
Call hunting is a feature when enabled, incoming call could be programmed so that it would ring more than one number sequentially as per priority without the caller knowing about it! It is called call hunting, as the PBX systems hunt for the person to whom an extension [...]

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Least Cost Routing in PBX

by Uttam Pegu on November 29, 2009

Least cost routing (LCR) has become a very desirable and popular feature in PBX Systems in India. This is because of differential charging by telecom operators for making outgoing calls to land line fixed phone, mobile phone or cellular phone. In India, normally one pays higher while making a call from landline to a [...]

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