IP Ceiling Speakers

[asafayan1]

I have a small area that I need to build out and equip with ceiling speakers.  Does the community have any recommendations on the cheapest way to do about 6 IP ceiling mounted speakers without implementing multicast?

TIA,

Amir

[johnd2310]

Hi,

What will be sending media to the speakers? Cisco Paging Server?

Thanks

John

[asafayan1]

Hi,



Yes. I was intending to use the native "Basic" paging. Are there any other ways?



This is a relatively small remote site so I want to keep costs down. We have the tradition BOGEN TAMB and analog gateways at our other sites but I figured since this was a new site - we would go VoIP - assuming I can do it without the complexity of multicast.



Thanks,



Amir

[Jonathan Schulenberg · Accepted solution]

Both Singlewire and SynApps offer unicast-to-multicast gateways that you can connect to the voice VLAN of a remote site. They receive a unicameral RTP steam and then broadcast it (unless you configure IGMP) into the L2 segment.

CUCM does not support paging natively. They are simply OEMing a basic license from Singlewire.

Also, I believe more than one of the speaker manufacturers make SIP-registered gateways that stand in for an analog amp and can stream to their own IP speakers. I would gravitate toward the Singlewire/SynApps approach though so you have centralized control, especially when it comes time to patch firmware.

[asafayan1]

Thanks for the detailed answer.

Best,

Amir