Intercom question....

[Ray Morehead]

Our hospital is looking for a way to be able to page nurses via intercom, I know that CUCM does not support broadcast intercom which is what we need. I know (unless this has changed) that cucme supports broadcast intercom.

Heres my question: Since we already have CUCM running on our network, would it be possible or even a good idea to install CUCME in different departments to support broadcast intercom? I know that there are a lot of 3rd party vendors that have developed broadcast intercom, but I would prefer not having to install yet another piece of software.

~Ray                 

[Jaime Valencia]

Assuming you want to have paging between the phones that are going to be registered to CME, yes.

HTH

java

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[Ray Morehead]

Just found a post on this with your response Jaime, also found the CME integration guide.

I assume (at this point) that if I follow the integration guide....cucm will register cme....then the phones in the particalur department will register with that cme. I'll go read through the guide, and I'm sure I'll have a few more questions when done.

For now: would this integration work for wireless phones as well?

Thanks.

~Ray

[Chris Deren]

If you upgrade your system to CUCM 9.1 you will receive free Singlewire InformaCast basic paging solution:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/rel_notes/9_1_1/CUCM_BK_R6F8DBD4_00_release-notes-for-cucm-91_chapter_0100.html

Not that it helps you now, but something to think about.

HTH,

Chris

[grebac.2ring]

Ray,

Have a look at our 2Ring PHONE SERVICES at www.2Ring.com/NewJuice - it provides paging + much more.

Michal

[Rob Huffman · Accepted solution]

Hi Ray,

Hope all is well my friend

I just wanted to add my 2 cent$ to the good info from Java, Chris

& Michal (+5 each guys!)

If it were me, and you are running this in a Health Care environment

I would definitely go with more of an "Enterprise" solution. When the paging

requirement could be a life & death situation, I wouldn't want to have

the old "barbed wire & duct tape" type setup. Going with an enterprise

solution would allow broadcast paging, zone paging, overhead paging,

pushing "emergency" text to IP phones, etc. etc.

Here's three more;

Ipcelerate

http://ipcelerate.com/web/index.php/products-features/ipsession/paging

Syn-Apps

http://www.syn-apps.com/products/call-alert/

Singlewire

http://www.singlewire.com/informacast.html

As I say, this is just my 2 cent$ here Ray.

Cheers!

Rob

"Far away from your trouble and worry
You belong somewhere you feel free" - Tom Petty

[Ray Morehead]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your input on this, its always appreciated.

I had a meeting with my boss yesterday on this and after the fact it occurred to me what you just said. So excellent point indeed. I scanned the websites that have been provided so I will be checking those out.

Although I am still curious about the cme to cucm integration so if nothing else, I will probably set this up in a lab just to test it at some point.

Thanks!

(I'll hold the change joke)

~Ray