Well, here's the rub, I guess.<br>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.
<br><br>Anyone else have any ideas??<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Voll, Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:Scott.Voll@wesd.org">Scott.Voll@wesd.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [cisco-voip] Dry Closure</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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??? <br>
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