On 07/23/2010 10:37 PM, Elliot Otchet wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com > [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Peter Pauly > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:33 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [asterisk-users] Poor-man's paging through multiple phones? > > We're mostly Cisco CallManager with some SIP and Asterisk. > > I want someone at one of our locations to be able to dial and number and have > Asterisk simultaneously dial several Call-Manager extensions which are set to > auto-answer and talk into the phone creating a sort of paging system. > > We have informacast, but it is too cumbersome for the users. > > I know Asterisk can ring several phones at the same time... if one of them > answers, the others stop right? > > -- > True, but you could have your paging app record the announcement and then > play the recording out via an AGI/AMI Originate to each phone. > > If you're looking more for a hoot-and-holler system, use the AGI/AMI > Originate to dial the extensions and place the phones into a > MeetMe/Conference bridge.
This is exactly what the Page() application does, as has already been pointed out in this thread. No need to reinvent this wheel :-) -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA skype: kpfleming | jabber: kflem...@digium.com Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users