CME3.3 Design Question for High School

[apmorgan]

Looking for advice on an CME3.3/CUE2.2 implementation for a school. On the old phone system the principal was able to effectively send an individual page to a classroom, if the teacher did not answer the phone while they were teaching.

School has about 30 classrooms, I looked at ephone-dn paging, but since they do you use the page all feature I have the phones assigned to the Page All DN, and the paging group supports a max of 10 groups, I can't setup every classroom phone to belong to their own paging dn, and then group them for a page all.

Principal has a 7960 so I don't think I could setup an intercom to every classroom since principal only has 6 line appearances, is this accurate?

Classrooms have 7912, so one ephone-dn allowed, can't setup a button for feature ring, so teachers know principal is calling.

Any other suggestions on how I can do this??

Thanks

Andrew

[thisisshanky]

Andrew,

I think what you want here is individual paging-dns for each class, say class room 1, 2001 is the paging-dn through class room 30, 2030.

You can create 30 ephone-dns and configure them with a paging ip (multicast) and port (2000). Once you do this on the appropriate class room phones, (ephone configuration), configure a paging-dn say 2001 for class room 1, 2002 for class room 2 etc.

Once you do this you can dial 2001 through 2030 from any phone and page directly to the speaker phone of the appropriate class.

Check this link for config commands.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/sw/iosswrel/ps5207/products_administration_guide_chapter09186a00801f12ea.html#wp2175048

I am sure with a higher grade ISR router like 2811 or 2821 you can configure over a 100 DNs.

HTH

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[apmorgan]

HTH

Thanks for your response, but these classroom phones are already assigned to the paging group for the whole school, so I couldn't assign an ephone to an individual paging group as well as a schoolwide paging group.

Also it looks like 10 is the max number of paging groups in CME3.3.