NEC DSX-40 Telephone System Feature Guide

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What can a NEC DSX-40 System do for your home?

You have thoughtfully chosen many home amenities to simplify and enhance your life.  The NEC DSX40 telephone system offers the same sophistication and modern conveniences for your home and small business communications system.

Flexible Intercom – Rather than shout or run from room to room, especially in a large house, use the built-in intercom system.  When dinner is ready use the "page all" feature to announce it through all of your phones.  Your intercom is also a security device allowing you to listen in other areas of your home and use it to determine who is at the door from any telephone before you open the door or gate.

Multi-line Capability – For easier communications in your busy household, maximize your communications by adding additional phone lines to the expandable residential telephone system.  The NEC DSX-40 telephone system is perfect for households with one or more home-based businesses.  Add a line for him, a line for her, business lines, fax lines, and lines for the kids.  Using the privacy feature you can choose which telephones can share lines keeping some lines private.  You are no longer confined to your home office when working from home.

Sophisticated Answering System – The NEC Intramail Voicemail system, your personal concierge, at your service.  The automatic attendant can direct calls to family members without having to answer the phone.  Create different menus for each telephone line.  Create menus for your business lines to keep business calls separate from personal calls.  Each person can have their own personalized voicemail greeting.  For maximum flexibility the system will even page you when someone leaves a message or even call you on the cell phone to deliver the message directly to you - with one press of a button you can listen to the message.

The NEC DSX40 offers elegant styling, convenience and flexibility for the way you live.

Standard model NEC DSX telephones are available in white or black, and include a built-in speakerphone, large high-contrast display, and two-position telephone angle adjustment. These telephones are ideal for use in the kitchen, garage, or master bath because of their low-profile design.  The enhanced NEC DSX-40 telephones offer an adjustable backlight for the display and a clearly illuminated dial pad - fantastic for use in areas with low-light.  Phones can be personalized to meet individual needs.  It is simple to create a distinctive ring, a personal speed dial phone book, and one-button calling for frequently called numbers.  Of course you can also adjust the handset ringer and volume.

Built-in Caller ID

If you have Caller ID service, the DSX system is ready for you. In addition to identifying incoming callers on the phone’s display, the following easy to use features are provided:

Call Review and Return Call – For each received call, the DSX system stores the name, number, time & date, and who answered the call. The caller’s phone number is also available when reviewing voice messages. This allows you to easily redial without having to manually enter phone numbers.

Second Line Caller ID – While on a call, the system can show the Caller ID information for a call ringing on any other line - great for when a child is trying to get through with an important call.

Active Call Info – Parents can monitor or view the name and number of their child’s current or previous incoming calls.

Standard Phones – To enhance convenience and flexibility, the DSX system sends Caller ID information for both external and intercom calls to the standard phone ports for use with customer-provided Caller ID phones and accessories. Very useful for cordless phones.

Intramail

NEC’s IntraMail is a full-featured Auto-Answering Voice Messaging System that answers and directs calls, records individual voice messages, and saves the Caller ID number for immediate call back capability. Since IntraMail is integrated within the DSX system, an optional IntraMail compact flash card is all that’s required for these and many other practical features:

Multiple Greetings – IntraMail provides the ability to have a different greeting for each line and multiple greetings for each family member.

Call Screening – Listen to a caller as they are leaving you a voice mail message. Choose to take that important call or let them continue recording the message. You may also listen to the caller automatically through the speaker of any DSX telephone in the house.

Conversation Record – While on an important call, you can record the conversation into any voice mailbox for later review. You can also send your recorded conversation to another voice mailbox.

Message Center Key – When important information needs to get through to family members, voice messages can be left in a designated mailbox for group access. Each member of the group will have an assigned key for that mailbox which will flash when a new message has arrived. Using that same key, one touch access to the voice message is provided.

Message on Hold – Record an informative message that will play to callers while they wait for you to become available - an extra advantage for those running a home-based business.

Message Notification – Eliminate the need to call home to check for new messages. IntraMail can be set to automatically call a designated telephone number (such as your mobile phone) to let you know when new messages arrive. During the notification call, you can listen to your messages, or you can call back later to get your messages at a time that’s right for you.

Fax Detection – The built-in fax switch will route an incoming fax call to your fax machine, allowing you to save on the cost of a dedicated fax line. For those that have a dedicated line for faxes, the system will allow you to access that line for outgoing voice calls, thereby keeping your main business line free for the next important call.