[asterisk-users] Poor-man's paging through multiple phones?

[Elliot Otchet]

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Peter Pauly
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:33 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-users] Poor-man's paging through multiple phones?

We're mostly Cisco CallManager with some SIP and Asterisk.

I want someone at one of our locations to be able to dial and number and have Asterisk simultaneously dial several Call-Manager extensions which are set to auto-answer and talk into the phone creating a sort of paging system.

We have informacast, but it is too cumbersome for the users.

I know Asterisk can ring several phones at the same time... if one of them answers, the others stop right?

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True, but you could have your paging app record the announcement and then play the recording out via an AGI/AMI Originate to each phone.

If you're looking more for a hoot-and-holler system, use the AGI/AMI Originate to dial the extensions and place the phones into a MeetMe/Conference bridge.

For the simultaneous dialing part, be sure to research the Async option on Originate.  The increased performance is quite noticeable in applications like this.

PERL/C/PHP/'Rails/Java, choose your weapon.  If you've got the CM set up already, each of the AGI/AMI frameworks should have examples on how to do Originate calls.

-Elliot





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