[Asterisk-Users] Overhead Paging

[Lyle Giese]

Valcom makes commerical paging subsystems for PBX's and I see that they have
made a VoIP compatible pageing module.

Lyle
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Pavane" <asterisk-users at brianpavane.org>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 7:12 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Overhead Paging


> All,
>
> I am currently implementing a VoIP PBX, and need to deal with the paging
> situation.  I would prefer to do paging via overhead speakers.
>
> My plan is to connect a "Paging Unit" to an FXS port of an IAD, and assign
an
> extension to that port.  I would then simply be able to call that
extension, and
> have my call patched through to the overhead speakers.
>
> Has anyone implemented this type of setup, if so, what type of paging unit
did
> you deploy, did you require an external amplifier or power supply, and how
many
> speakers were you able to connect to the unit?  As it stands, I will need
> between 4 and 8 speakers, and some of the speakers will be 400 feet from
the
> main telco closet.
>
> Any thoughts, comments, and suggestions that you can shed on this topic
would be
> much appreciated.  If you have other methods of implementing overhead
paging, I
> would also be interested.
>
> -Brian
>
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