[Asterisk-Users] All Page ??

[Chris Coulthurst]

Polycom most definately should add a provision for off hook voice 
announcing.  It would be nice to have a receptionist announce a call for you 
over the speakerphone while you are using the handset.  I don't see why it 
would be anything more than a programming limitation, but then it becomes an 
issue of getting asterisk to talk to it.   Even still, I'm sure the 
alert-info flag would be usable here as well, since you can already control 
not only ringer types, but call waiting cadences as well.

Is there a 'suggestion box' for upcoming SIP software releases on Polycom's 
site?  Or maybe someone knows the right person to drop the hints to in the 
company?

In the meantime, your best bet is really overhead paging amplifiers, which 
you can get from Viking that work over Zap channels quite well.  It can even 
integrate with call park announcing.

Chris Coulthurst
chris at shuksan.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew at zeut.net>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] All Page ??


> Steve Maroney wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know of any plans to add an intercom/all-page feature in *?
>>
>>The few SIP phones that have auto-answer capability would be better if
>>Asterisk could broadcast one leg of a channel to many legs at one time.
>>
>
> I'm looking for an answer to this problem also.  I am putting an Asterisk 
> system into our new office.  In our old office we used the old phone 
> system to act as an intercom, you hit page all and your voice comes out of 
> the speaker on several handsets throughout the office.  This allows you to 
> announce information or to the whole office, simply announcing to someones 
> desk doesn't work since our people move around a lot and are not always at 
> their desk.
>
> Anyway, I have some Polycom phones, and I have Autoanswer working with 
> Asterisk, but which ever phone happens to answer the call first is the 
> only one who's speaker my voice comes out of.
>
> Anyone have an answer to this problem?
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
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