Nortel m3900 series Operating and installation instructions

M3900 Series Telephones Description, Installation and Administration
Meridian 1
M3900 Series Meridian Digital
Telephones
Description, Installation and Administration
Document Number: 553-3001-216
Document Release: Standard 1.00
Date: June 1999
Year Publish FCC TM
© 1999
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Information is subject to change without notice. Nortel Networks Corporation reserves the right to make
changes in design or components as progress in engineering and manufacturing may warrant. This equipment
has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC
rules, and the radio interference regulations of Industry Canada. These limits are designed to provide
reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial
environment. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and
used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user
will be required to correct the interference at their own expense.
SL-1 and Meridian 1 are trademarks of Nortel Networks Corporation.

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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Other documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Functional description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
General features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Feature keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
M3901 Entry Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
M3902 Basic Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
M3903 Enhanced Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
M3904 Professional Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
M3905 Call Center Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Configure the M3900 Series Meridian Digital
Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Hardware options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Handset option for the M3905 Call Center Telephone . . . . . . . . . . 26
Headset options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
External Alerter and Recording Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Key-based Expansion Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Analog Terminal Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Meridian Communications Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
To install the M3900 Series Meridian Digital Telephones: . . . . . . 29
To install the ACM: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Accessory keying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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Telephone positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Environmental and safety considerations . . . . . . 33
Temperature and humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Line engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
List of Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Figure 1
M3901 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Figure 2
M3902 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Figure 3
M3903 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 4
M3904 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Figure 5
M3905 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Figure 6
Installation of the Accessory Connection Module (ACM) . . . . . . . . . 30

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Table 1
Feature Key text and icon labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Table 2
LD 11 - Configure the M3900 Series Digital Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Table 3
M3901 key configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Table 4
M3902 key configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Table 5
M3903 key configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Table 6
M3904 key configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Table 7
M3905 key configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Table 8
LD 20 - Configure print routine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Table 9
Hardware Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Table 10
M3900 Series Meridian Digital Telephone accessory compatibility . . 31

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