Paging to IP location

[bigtee959]

We are installing a new 1000E in a few months and we have some people in a remote office off of dark fiber. Just about 20- 30 IP phones. The question of paging came up about this location, is ther anyway to page to this location. ther is no Nortel EQ here just the network connect via the fiber??

Terence

Terence Phillips
Telecommunication Specialist

 

[pansophic]

Sure. You can put in an ATA that is attached to a paging system and users would simply dial an "extension" that would be auto-answered by the paging equipment. Viking Telecom makes such equipment.

http://www.vikingelectronics.com/

pansophic

 

[bigtee959]

All I have at the remote site is a patch panel and a fiber connection from my main site. Where would this ata go and what would it get pluged into??



Terence Phillips
Telecommunication Specialist

 

[pansophic]

The ATA is an analog terminal adapter. It is what you would use to plug in a fax on your VoIP network. It has an RJ-45 to attach it to your network, and an RJ-11 to attach to your fax or other analog device. To the network it looks like a VoIP phone, and to the device it looks like a CO line. Provides dialtone, ring voltage and battery.

I assume that you have already determined what you are going to do about getting the network up at your site, since you said that you will have GigE and 20 to 30 IP phones.


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[Foulke]

Nortel has partnered with Citrix with an application server which gives the capability of paging over IP phones. It is called voice suite. One major problem with paging over the WAN that we ran into is a 80K per phone paged requirement that the vendors are currently working on. If you have the bandwidth this application is pretty neat. Depending on the office, you can choose to only page to some phones which would lower the required bandwidth.