Question on Paging

[Chris Wheeler]

If a client has multiple locations and and they would like to dial an extension from location A and page over all the desk phones and overhead speakers all at one time at location B, would this be possible.
The locations can range from 20-200 phones.
The overhead would use a SIP gateway that ties into their analog controller.
If so, are there any caveats of doing so?

 

[cobaltit]

The only caveat would be you don't want to do direct SIP paging for more than 20 extensions, you'd want to do multicast paging. So preferably you'd need a paging device that can do multicast paging at each location. Something like a Snom PA-1 or a Cyberdata Paging server.

 

[Chris Wheeler]

The only caveat would be you don't want to do direct SIP paging for more than 20 extensions, you'd want to do multicast paging. So preferably you'd need a paging device that can do multicast paging at each location. Something like a Snom PA-1 or a Cyberdata Paging server.

Thank you. I guess I was trying to figure out if there could be a single extension that could do a multicast page to all of the phones at a specific office and also include their overhead paging at that location (Using a Snom PA- or Cyberdata).

 

[CentrexJ]

Cyberdata devices can receive a sip page and send it out on the local network as a multicast page to the phones. You will likely have to use custom templates on the phones for this.

 

[cobaltit]

Both the Snom PA-1 and the Cyberdata devices (as well as most other similar type devices) are designed to be setup as a SIP endpoint so yes you can setup a single extension to page a location.