I see a lot of chatter in the archives about intercom and paging, but has anyone addressed zone paging? Each of the 50 telephones in a large clinic would be members of one or more paging zones. Someone could then page Dr. X in zone #1. Would this be possible with analog phones? SIP? Thanks, Mike
> I see a lot of chatter in the archives about intercom and paging, but > has anyone addressed zone paging? Each of the 50 telephones in a large > clinic would be members of one or more paging zones. Someone could then > page Dr. X in zone #1. Would this be possible with analog phones? SIP?Summarizing from memory only, I believe this has been discussed more then once on the list and usually comes down to... what device(s) provide an auto-answer extension and includes an audio output jack that can be plugged into a paging amplifier? The two most common suggestions (from memory again) has been: 1. Use of the sound card on the asterisk machine (which sort of implies a limit of one paging zone), or, 2. Use a sip phone (Cisco 7960 with v6 as one example), configure the phone to support auto-answer, and connect the external headset to the paging amp. (Implies one sip phone per paging zone.) I've not tried either, so not sure of success/failure rates or problems. Seems like a fair number of people have problems getting the sound card to play nicely with asterisk, and most of the chatter seems to be oriented around sound card driver issues, etc. Don't know if the ata-186 supports auto-answer in current software, but if it did, jury-rigging a matching transformer as a source of zone audio would not seem like it would be very difficult. (Anyone know whether the 186 can be configured for auto answer?) Rich
There are a number of paging interfaces available which connect to a regular phone line on one side and to a paging amplifier on the other side. Use one or more of these - connect them to FXS cards either Digiums 4xFXS or a channel bank and make the extensions your paging zones in the dialplan. Regards Alfred R. Nurnberger --------------------------- F L O S Y S Making Communications Flow Tel: +1 (503) 972-9300 Fax: +1 (503) 972-9309 US Toll Free: 1-877-4FLOSYS h323: 208.187.136.227 http://www.flosys.com -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Michael Welter Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 6:06 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging I see a lot of chatter in the archives about intercom and paging, but has anyone addressed zone paging? Each of the 50 telephones in a large clinic would be members of one or more paging zones. Someone could then page Dr. X in zone #1. Would this be possible with analog phones? SIP? Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Alfred R. Nurnberger wrote:> There are a number of paging interfaces available which connect to a regular > phone line on one side > and to a paging amplifier on the other side. >Could you provide a pointer? The search terms "pager" and "telephone" together are giving me a heck of a lot of noise. . . Thx. B.
>> There are a number of paging interfaces available which connect to a >> regular >> phone line on one side >> and to a paging amplifier on the other side. >> > > Could you provide a pointer? > > The search terms "pager" and "telephone" together are giving me a heck > of a lot of noise. . . > > Thx. > > B.http://www.valcom.com Easy to use, widely available and fairly inexpensive.
Bogen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Capouch" <brianc@palaver.net> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging> Alfred R. Nurnberger wrote: > > There are a number of paging interfaces available which connect to aregular> > phone line on one side > > and to a paging amplifier on the other side. > > > > Could you provide a pointer? > > The search terms "pager" and "telephone" together are giving me a heck > of a lot of noise. . . > > Thx. > > B. > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Smarthome has an inexpensive one at: http://www.smarthome.com/77965.html for $60.00 This one needs a FXO port though. Alfred. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Brian Capouch Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 12:36 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging Alfred R. Nurnberger wrote:> There are a number of paging interfaces available which connect to aregular> phone line on one side > and to a paging amplifier on the other side. >Could you provide a pointer? The search terms "pager" and "telephone" together are giving me a heck of a lot of noise. . . Thx. B. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users