[cisco-voip] Dry Closure

[Todd Franklin]

Well, here's the rub, I guess.
This is a dispatch center for a police and ambulance station.  So the new
consoles they put in, the dispatchers listen to 2 way radios (from the
vehicles) and must be able to communicate with them.  But they also need to
be able to work the phones, of course!  If the phone supports "dry closure",
the dispatch system is smart enough to take the phone call, but put it on
hold if a radio call comes in (and vice versa).  So I am wondering if there
isn't some technical way to do a dry closure.  The IP Comm thing looks good,
but it would mean another PC to run the phones.

Anyone else have any ideas??

On 2/6/07, Voll, Scott <Scott.Voll at wesd.org> wrote:
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>  What about IP Communicator?
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Todd Franklin
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:40 AM
> *To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* [cisco-voip] Dry Closure
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> I have a site that has just converted most of its operations to a touch
> screen PC.   Very slick!  It can incorporate the phones too, but the phones
> need what is called a "dry closure".  Apparently, NO Cisco VOIP phones have
> this.  I do know that 1 or 2 Cisco routers have cards that support dry
> closure, but i don't know if I could still run the phones off them.  Is
> there a little box or something I could put on the desk near the phones that
> would enable this "dry closure"?  Or are there other vendor phones that
> support dry closure that would still work with Cisco CCM???
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
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