[cisco-voip] something different

[Wes Sisk]

Informacast addresses this with a broadcast group.  It uses the API's 
presented at each point product to provide a more user friendly solution.

http://www.singlewire.com/informacast.html
<quote>
InformaCast is ideal for:

     * Organizations that need to be able to send emergency broadcasts, 
such as government agencies, schools, and hospitals
</quote>

Several other vendors offer similar.  All use essentially the same approach:
* post XML instruction to phones to have them join a multicast group
* transmit multicast audio from source to the designated multicast 
address where all phones are listening
One caveat to this is that it is typically a one way delivery: source to 
destination, not bidirectional.


There was a DoD partner working on a different approach to address the 
unidirectional issue. They were looking at invoking a conference bridge 
(either meetme or adhoc) and conferencing all participants together.  
Unfortunately I do not have the name of that company readily available.

Regards,
Wes

On 3/1/2011 3:11 PM, Kevin Dunn wrote:
> We (Royal WE) are looking for a new feature:
> We would like to dial a 3 digit extension XXX and have all the 
> supervisor phones at our facility auto-join a conference call.  (Not 
> push to talk)
> Affect:  In case of an emergency all supervisors would report to a 
> specific area to check employees and equipment, then the plant 
> managercan XXX to get real time reports and identify problem areas in 
> the plant.
> Currently we are running CUCM 7.0.2, CUCCX 7.0 and are upgrading from 
> Unity 4.1 to Unit 7.
> What would be the "best" approach to get this to work?
>
>
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