[cisco-voip] something different

[Kevin Dunn]

Looks like one more reason to put informacast in here....Thanks Wes
(and everyone else who answered)

Kevin

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> wrote:

> 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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