Introduction
This document covers the overview of features offered on Cisco Paging server/ InformaCast.
What features do I get from InformaCast?
Basic Paging vs Advanced Notification
Basic Paging- Free, not licensed
- Point to Point and Group Live Audio Paging to/from Cisco IP Phones
- Unlimited Groups/Zones of endpoints as configured by admin
- Maximum of 50 endpoint devices per group
- Paging between sites is supported (Multicast on WAN required)
Advanced Notification- Optional and licensed
- Pre-recorded/scheduled broadcasts (school bells/shift changes)
- Notification to Jabber IM
- Notification to Social Media (key for higher ed)
- Communication with mobile and remote users
- Triggered notification to/from other systems- M2M input/output (panic buttons, door locks, lights, etc.)
- Integration to existing overhead paging systems
- Text and Audio to Cisco IP Phones and other endpoints
- Broadcasts to IP Speakers
- 911/emergency call monitoring/alerting/recording
- Weather Alerting with CAP
- Dynamically-triggered emergency conference calls
- And more..
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