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

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 07/23/2010 10:37 PM, Elliot Otchet wrote:
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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
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> Subject: [asterisk-users] Poor-man's paging through multiple phones?
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> 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?
> 
> --
> 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.

This is exactly what the Page() application does, as has already been
pointed out in this thread. No need to reinvent this wheel :-)

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