y a station is a telephone set y A station busy signal is sent from the switching machine

back to the calling station whenever the called telephone is off hook y The station busy signal is a two tone signal comprised of 480 Hz and 620Hz y On for 0.5 seconds and then off for 0.5 seconds; 60 ppm y Sometimes called slow busy
North American busy tone Old North American

y Sometimes called a congestion tone or no circuits y

y y y

available tone Sent from the switching machine back to the calling station whenever the system cannot complete the call because of equipment unavailability This condition is called blocking and occurs whenever the system is overloaded and more calls are being placed than can be completed On for 0.2 s and off for 0.3 s; 120 ppm Sometimes called fast busy The telephone company refers to this as a can t complete

y Sent from central office to a subscriber whenever there

is an incoming call y Purpose is to ring the bell in the telephone set to alert the subscriber when there is an incoming call y The ringing signal is nominally 20 Hz, 90 Vrms signal that is on for 2 seconds and then off for 4 seconds