Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: woody Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Telephone Diverters Message-ID: <10671@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 8 Aug 90 03:44:13 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 38 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 556, Message 6 of 9 [The following was taken from IMEX's TELECOM echo area, which I started up for discussing Telephone/Telecommunications in the Toronto area - inquiries about IMEX or the TELECOM echo may be made to djcl@contact.uucp] From: Mark Foster Subj: Telephone diverters I recently purchased a ASAP TF 505 telephone diverter for under $200.00 this device allows for up t5 different devices to be hooked up to one incoming line. As an example you can hook up a FAX, Modem, answering machine, and two telephones to the diverter. When you call into the diverter it answers and gives the caller a false ringing, while its looks for a FAX CNG signal or a reverse modem detection (I have not tried these yet). If it detects these it then diverts the call to the modem or the fax. While it is giving the false ring, the caller (or computer) can enter up to a four digit access code and connect to one of two telephone output ports (the diverter actually regenerates a ring signal which will ring a standard 2500 tel set!!). Finally the fifth output port can have an answering machine which can give the caller instructions as to what is happening and how to enter access codes to get different connew3ctions to the five ports. In the final scenario the caller gets the beep from the t(answering machine and can leave a message. I have connected several phone to the ports and found the device to be quite acceptable. Note, if you pick up any device on any of the five ports, the rest of the ports are disabled. If anyone has one of these devices I would be interested in thier applications. Also I believe this device is available form Hello Direct under the trad name Autoswitcher. * Origin: The Super Continental (Opus 89:480/126)