Paging through Cloud PBX

[Jases Brown]

What solutions are you guys using when your PBX is cloud hosted, you are using SBC and you need overhead paging?

 

[diamond9]

Snom PA1 could be a good fit, we use it as an external ringer for warehouse

https://www.3cx.com/sip-phones/snom-pa1/

 

[leejor]

You could also use an ATA along with an analogue paging system, that uses a (dial up) telephone line input. Some people still have those left over from other sites.

 

[jasit]

check to see if your phones have multicast, the yealinks do. Then you can just run it on your local network.

 

[Jases Brown]

check to see if your phones have multicast, the yealinks do. Then you can just run it on your local network.

My issue with that is that the phones are rarely loud enough for classrooms or large rooms.

 

[jasit]

as long as your phone and your paging system are on the same network, then you can still use multicast, there are devices, that will take from multicast and send it to a analog device like a speaker, just google multicast speakers.or multicast paging.

 

[craigreilly]

Grandstream and Yealink phones on site.
Multicast Paging MPK (button) on phone to a Multicast Address
Overhead IP speakers in bullpen area
Son PA1 and analog horns for the warehouse
Some phones in individual offices also have Multicast Listener