Setting up data calls from a DCP telephone

Last Updated : Oct 30, 2012 |

About this task

When a data terminal is unavailable, you can originate and control data calls from a DCP telephone. Use any unrestricted telephone to set up the call, and then transfer the call to a data module endpoint.

Use a button on a multiappearance telephone data-extensions to make the data call. Assign any administrable feature button as a data-extension button. The data-extension button provides one-touch access to a data module.

Use any of the following options, either alone or in combination, to make a data call from a voice terminal.

Procedure

  1. One-Button Transfer to Data

    Press the data-extension button after the endpoint answers, to transfer a call to the associated data module.

  2. Return-to-Voice

    Press the data-extension button that is associated with a busy data module to change a connection from a data connection to a voice connection. If you hang up, the system disconnects the call. If the system returns the data call to the telephone, the system either continues the call in voice mode, or the system transfers the data call to another endpoint.

  3. Data Call Preindication

    Press the data-extension button to reserve the associated data module before you dial a data endpoint. The system reserves the data module for the call and reserves a conversion resource for the call, if the call needs a conversion resource.

    Use the Data Call Preindication option before you use one-button transfer to data, for data calls that use toll-network facilities. Data Call Preindication is in effect until you press the associated data-extension button again for a one-button transfer. There is no timeout.