3Com NBX 100 Network Router User Manual


 
System Settings 283
Documentation — The NBX Telephone Guide, the User Help, and the
quick reference cards.
Tones and Cadences — The tones and the patterns of rings (cadence)
versus silence. Tones and cadences vary from country to country.
Examples:
United States ringing cadence (pattern) is 2 seconds of ring
followed by 4 seconds of silence.
United Kingdom ringing cadence is 2 rings within approximately 2
seconds followed by 2 seconds of silence.
United States busy tone is 0.75 seconds of tone followed by 0.75
seconds of silence.
To enable different regional settings, select System Configuration >
System Settings > Regional Settings > Advanced. See the Help for
procedures on selecting regional settings.
Date and Time If necessary, you can set the NBX system date and time. It is important
that the date and time are accurate because the system date and time:
Appear on an idle NBX telephone display
Affect business hours behavior
Affect time-dependent prompts in the Auto Attendant
Affect the time and date stamp on voicemail
To select the system date and time, select System Configuration > System
Settings > Date and Time. See the Help for the procedure on setting the
system date and time.
Timers System timers enable you to set time-out periods for the NBX system
features that are described in Table 57
. To set timers, select System
Configuration > System Settings > Timers. See the Help for the procedure
on setting timers.
Table 57 System Timers Fields
Field Purpose
Forward Voice Mail On
Timeout
When a telephone’s FWD VMAIL button is enabled, this
field specifies the duration of ringing before a call is
forwarded to voice mail.
If you set this time to under 6 seconds, caller
ID information is not captured in voicemail.