[Asterisk-Users] What does "Page" application do?

[janvb at caselaboratories.com]

Paging is a quite common feature on modern PABX's and means that anyone 
can connect to any speakerphone to broadcast messages, in some cases 
even if the phone is in use. The typical usage would be the company 
secretary desperatly trying to get hold of someone and since that person 
don't answer the phone she makes a broadcast call to a department or to 
the entire company through the speaker-phones.

I am not familiar with the Asterisk implementation!

Jan

Robert La Ferla wrote:

> Why would you use this?  Can someone please elaborate on the below 
> description?  I'm missing the intent of it.
>
> localhost*CLI> show application Page
> [Synopsis]
> Pages phones
>
> [Description]
> Page(Technology/Resource&Technology2/Resource2[|options])
>  Places outbound calls to the given technology / resource and dumps
> them into a conference bridge as muted participants.  The original
> caller is dumped into the conference as a speaker and the room is
> destroyed when the original caller leaves.  Valid options are:
>        d - full duplex audio
>         q - quiet, do not play beep to caller
>
> _______________________________________________
> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
>
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>   http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>
>
>