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On-hook

In telecommunication, the term on-hook has the following meanings:

1. In telephony, the condition that exists when an operational telephone, or other user instrument, is not in use.

Note: On-hook originally referred to the storage of an idle telephone receiver, i.e., separate earpiece, on a hook that extended from a vertical post that supported the microphone also. The hook was mechanically connected to a switch that automatically disconnected the idle telephone from the network.

2. One of two possible signaling states, such as tone or no tone, or ground connection versus battery connection.

Note: If on-hook pertains to one state, off-hook pertains to the other.

3. The idle state[?], i.e. , open loop, of a subscriber or PBX user loop.

4. An operating state of a communications link in which data transmission is disabled and a high-impedance, i.e., open circuit, is presented to the link by the end instrument(s).

Note: During the on-hook condition, the link is responsive to ringing signals.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188



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