Any Higher Education folks out there use IPSession for campus-wide emergency alerts? We currently use IPSession for zone paging on a fairly small scale for some departments -less than 200 phones-, but interest is rising to deploy it (or something like it) on a larger, campus-wide scale (4000-6000 endpoints). <br>
<br>I'm just fishing around for any opinions on the matter, particularly regarding ease of use for the public safety personnel that would be sending the alerts, and performance as far as how quickly they can go live on thousands of phones. Since we already have 1 IPSession node in place, we're leaning rather heavily towards that solution if it will work out. There is also the possibility of integrating some speakers and traditional PA systems down the road.<br>
<br>We currently use a hosted service to send out cell phone text messages and emails, our public safety is interested in expanding this to better cover the campus.<br><br>Thanks!<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ed Leatherman<br>
Senior Voice Engineer<br>West Virginia University<br>Telecommunications and Network Operations