Definitions for "Answer Supervision"
Keywords:  acd, calland, circuity, cpe, hook
A signal sent to the telephone company's central office that says a call has been connected (primarily used for long-distance phone calls to start the billing time).
The signal sent by the ACD or other device to the local or long distance carrier to accept a calland triggers a billing event from the carrier.
A telephone system feature that returns a momentary drop in loop current when a connection has been established. When call progress analysis detects a transient loop current drop, it returns a connect event.