Other Telephones Sets

Call park is a feature of some telephone systems that allows a person to put a call on hold at one telephone set and continue the conversation from any other telephone set. more...

Home
Cables, Connectors
Filers, Load Balancers
Home Networking, Cable & DSL
Hubs
KVM Switch Boxes, Cables
Mainframe, DEC, VAX, AS/400
Network Interface Cards,...
Networking, Telecom Tools
Other Networking Equipment
Print Servers, Wired
Racks, Mounts & Patch Panels
Router Components, Memory
Routers, Wired
Security, Firewall, VPN
Server Components, Memory
Servers
Software
Software, Operating Systems
Storage Equipment, NAS, SAN
Switch Components, Memory
Switches
Telephone Systems, Telecom
Concentrators, Terminal...
Conference Equipment
Converters
CSU, DSU, SMDSU
Fax Boards, Fax Modems
Modems, Modem Boards
Multiplexers
Music On Hold, MOH
Other
Parts, Components
Remote Access Devices
Skype Devices
Telephone Sets, Handsets
AT&T, Lucent, Avaya
Definity
Legend
Merlin, Magix, BIS
Other AT&T, Lucent, Avaya
Partner
Comdial
Inter-Tel, Axxess
NEC, Nitsuko
Nortel
Meridian
Norstar
Other Nortel Handsets
Other Telephones Sets
Panasonic
Toshiba
Telephone Systems, PBX
Voicemail, Voice Processing
VOIP, Internet Telephony
UPS, Power Protection, APC
Wholesale Lots
Wireless Networking, WiFi
Workstation Components,...
Workstations, Terminals

The “call park” feature is activated by pressing a preprogrammed button (usually labelled “Call Park”) or a special sequence of buttons. This transfers the current telephone conversation to an unused extension number and immediately puts the conversation on hold. (This is called parking the call; and the call is said to have parked onto a certain extension. Essentially, call parking temporarily assigns an extension number to an incoming call.) The telephone system will then display the extension number of the parked call so that the call can later be retrieved.

At this point, the telephone system will often provide an option for the person to make an announcement through a public address system (often consisting of some or all of the telephone sets controlled by the telephone system). Making such announcements in such a way is referred to as paging.

A set time is then provided for any person to retrieve the call by dialing the extension number of the parked call on any telephone set.

If no one picks up the parked call within the set time, the telephone system may ring back the parked call. This transfers the parked call back to the person who originally parked the call.

Uses of call parking

Call parking is often useful in buildings with many offices or with more than one floor, and with most of the areas having access to one or more telephone sets.

If the desired called party is not the person who picked up the call, and the desired called party is at an unknown location, the person who picked up the call may park the call and then use the public address system to page the desired called party to pick up the call.; During a conversation, a person may need to go to another office for some reason (for example, to retrieve an important file); parking the call allows this person to continue the conversation after arriving at the other office.;

Read more at Wikipedia.org