NEC I-Series Multibutton Telephone Feature Handbook

If you do a lot of call processing (like 
an operator or dispatcher), you may
have either a 110-Button or 24-Button
Direct Station Selection (DSS)
Console. The DSS Console gives you
a Busy Lamp Field (BLF) and one-
button access to extensions, trunks
and certain system features. Use the
DSS Console to help you:
Call Extensions and Door BoxesPlace, answer and Transfer outside callsMake Internal or External PagesSwitch the Night Service modeActivate DSS Console Alternate Answer (i.e., redirect your...

1. Press DSS Console key assigned to out-
side line.
On 28i/124i, pressing EXT. 2 selects
the DSS keys for outside lines.
2. Dial outside telephone number.
If you dont have Handsfree, you
must lift the handset to speak.
1. Press flashing DSS Console key
assigned to outside line.
1. Press DOOR + DSS Console key for
Door Box you want to call (1-8). 
If you dont have Handsfree, you
must lift the handset to talk to the Door
Box.
Door Box BLF
If DSS key is . . . Door Box is . . .
On Busy or ringing in
Off...

1. Place or answer call.
If you are on an Intercom call, press
before going to the next step.
2. Press DSS Console key for extension
that will receive Transfer.
You cannot Transfer to an extension
that is busy or in DND.
3. (Optional) Announce  call.
If the called party doesnt want the
call, press flashing  to retrieve it.
4. to hang up.
1. Press PAGE (for External Paging) or
GROUP (for Internal Paging).
2. Press DSS Console Paging key.
DSS keys 1-8 are for External Paging
zones 1-8. DSS keys 1-64 are...

1. Press Night Service key (NIGHT, DAY,
BREAK or NITE 2).
1. Press ALT.
You hear a short confirmation tone.
If you hear a long tone, you cannot
enable Alternate Answer. Another user
has already enabled your console as
their Alternate Answer destination.
Alternate Answer BLF
When  the ALT Alternate Answer
key is . . . is . . .
On Enabled
Off Disabled
To activate DSS
Console Alternate
Answer:
Night Service BLF
If this key is lit . . . System in in the . . .
NIGHT Night Mode
DAY Day Mode
BREAK Rest Mode...

Flash allows you to access certain features of the telephone company
or PBX to which your phone system is connected. This lets you take
full advantage of whatever features the connected telephone company
or PBX offers. Flash accesses these features by momentarily interrupt-
ing the loop current on your outside line. This is much like briefly
pressing and then releasing the hookswitch on your telephone at home.
1.
To flash the outside
line you are on:
Flash
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Forced Trunk Disconnect enables you to disconnect (release) another
extensions active outside call if you need to use their line. You can
then place a call on the released line.
1. Press  for the busy trunk.
OR
Dial trunk access code (e.g., 
+ trunk number).
2. .
You hear confirmation beeps as the
system disconnects the line. You can
now place a call on the free line.
To disconnect a busy
trunk:
C A U T I O N
Forced Trunk Disconnect abruptly terminates the active
call on the line. You should use this...

This feature requires a Voice Announce Unit (VAU).
A General Message is a prerecorded Voice Announce Unit (VAU)
message to which you and your co-workers can listen. This message
typically contains important company information that all employees
should hear.
1. Do not lift the handset or press  .
2.
1. + .
2. To record, dial  .
OR
To listen, dial  .
OR
To erase, dial  .
If you dial 5 or 7, you can dial # to
hear the message again.
If you dial 3, you can press HOLD to
cancel before going to the next...

If you frequently work together with the same people, your extensions
may be in a Call Pickup Group. This allows you and your co-workers
to use Group Call Pickup to easily answer each others ringing calls.
Group Call Pickup also helps if you frequently cover for co-workers
in another Pickup Group. When a call rings one of their phones, you
can intercept it even if you dont know their extension numbers.
With Group Call Pickup, you can intercept the following types of calls:
A call ringing an extension in...

Use Group Listen when you want others in your office to listen in on
your call. While you talk on the handset, your callers voice broadcasts
over your telephones speaker. Group Listen automatically turns your
Handsfree microphone off so your caller cannot hear the conversation
in your office.
1. Place or answer call using the handset.
2. twice (but do not hang up).
SPK flashes slowly.
You can talk to the caller through
your handset. Your co-workers hear
your callers voice over your phones
speaker.
When...

When its inconvenient to hold the handset, you can use the speaker
and microphone in your telephone and talk Handsfree instead.
Handsfree is great when you dont have a free hand for the phone.
(For example, you may want to enter data at a computer terminal
while talking to a customer on the phone.)
There are three types of Handsfree operation:
1. or or  .
2. Place call.
3. Speak toward phone when called party
answers.
1.  and hang up the handset.
2. to hang up when you are done.
1.
To change a
Handsfree...