Operating instructions

EQUIPMENT
Your Versa-Link ATX-300 is compatible with virtually
all modern telecommunications equipment, including
single and multi-line telephones. Because your
ATX-300 is installed between your telephone system
and the phone company, it
can direct all your tele-
phone traffic to the proper equipment. The most
popular types of equipment used with a Versa-Link
ATX-300 are described below.
2.1 FAX MACHINES
Your ATX-300 has special features that work
extremely well with FAX machines and PC FAX
Boards. The Auto FAX Detection feature allows most
FAX calls to transfer to your FAX machine
automatically.
The vast majority of FAX machines sold today have
the ability to dial the number of the receiving FAX
from memory, and then identify itself as a FAX
machine with a tone (called CNG tone or AUTO-FAX
tone). It will then continue to identify itself until the
called FAX answers the call. When an ATX-300 is
used at the receiving end, it can detect this FAX
identification tone, and automatically transfer the call
to the FAX machine on the receiving end, without
ringing the telephone.
Occasionally, calls will come from a FAX machine
without a FAX identification tone. This may happen if
the calling person is using an older FAX machine, or
dials the number manually using the FAX handset. In
most applications, calls without this auto-FAX tone
will be routed to your telephone system. The call can
be manually transferred to the FAX machine by
dialing * 2 (or another code, if re-programmed) on
your telephone keypad. Either the caller or the
person who answers can transfer the call. See
section 4.2.2 for details of operation.
VFRSA-LINK ATX-300
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