[cisco-voip] overhead paging vs ip phones

[Scott Voll]

Berbee's got a new product to interface with the current PA systems.  I
would go that way.  and you can download a trail for it for 30 days also....
but you would need the hardware piece to interface with your PA system.

Scott

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> Thanks Mike and Monica for your replies. It makes sense with the FXO ports
> and being able to ship out digits to control the zone. I was hoping I
> could
> do this with FXS ports - that's where I was seeing difficulty with the
> delay
> in sending digits out.
>
> I can understand it being cheaper with the paging controller, but with
> IPCelerate, I'm hoping we can make things easier and group zone by
> graphical
> interface rather than a list of buildings and zones.
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Norton, Mike" <mikenorton at pwsd76.ab.ca>
> To: "Cisco Voip List" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] overhead paging vs ip phones
>
>
>  > Correct. The workaround is to configure the zone controller to connect
> > to an FXO port. That way you can do your digit manipulation with route
> > patterns in CM. For example, make a pattern 1234.XX that strips pre-dot
> > and routes out the FXO port. Then tell IPcelerate to call 123456 and it
> > will pass 56 to the zone controller.
> >
> > Overall, I have not found IPcelerate's integration with overhead zone
> > controllers to be very elegant. It works better just to let users call
> > the zone controller directly. Not to mention it's way easier and cheaper
> > to set up this way.
> >
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lelio Fulgenzi
> >
> > Can anyone comment on how IPCelerate interfaces with Bogen zone paging
> > controllers for example? If I setup zones on the Bogen, can the
> > IPCelerate call in and punch in the zone as well? I thought all that
> > DTMF and pauses was not supported?
> >
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