[cisco-voip] Broadcast Hunt Group query
I know that this is going to bring a smile to some people, but I’ll ask the question. I have a request come in “Can we use the phones to mark the start and finish time for marking the silence on 11 Nov” I thought about using a broadcast hunt group, but there are 4,000 handsets. I have read somewhere that you can only use a handfull of devices in a broadcast hunt group, so I’m looking for some divine inspiration should anyone have any to spare. obviously if it can’t be easily achieved then I do have the option to say no. Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com ___ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
Re: [cisco-voip] Broadcast Hunt Group query
My gut feeling is that, since you have 4,000 phones, trying to do something to the lot of them all at once will not be possible. You'd have a better chance if you selected key phones in certain areas and used the speaker phone. E.g., In a cubicle farm, 1 in 25 phones could be elected. Of course this means you'd need a seating chart. An ip overhead paging solution might be the ultimate solution, but I realize you asked about phones. Do you want to make the phones play a tone or do you want to have a human voice speak? The best option is probably going to avoid call signaling and instead leverage the phones API. Possibly the play command or join multicast command. For either command, you might want to offload the authentication to a fast web server that answers blindly with a true. The play command puts stress on your TFTP server and its max connections. The join multicast command requires mroute on your network. This how single wire informacast works. Have you used an ip multicast paging solution before? Do you have one? On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:27 AM Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com wrote: I know that this is going to bring a smile to some people, but I’ll ask the question. I have a request come in “Can we use the phones to mark the start and finish time for marking the silence on 11 Nov” I thought about using a broadcast hunt group, but there are 4,000 handsets. I have read somewhere that you can only use a handfull of devices in a broadcast hunt group, so I’m looking for some divine inspiration should anyone have any to spare. obviously if it can’t be easily achieved then I do have the option to say no. Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com ___ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip ___ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
Re: [cisco-voip] Broadcast Hunt Group query
you will probably crash the system if you put 4,000 phones in a broadcast hunt group :) You would need some third party application like Singlewire Informacast, SA-Announce Synapps, etc. to get this type of functionality On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com wrote: I know that this is going to bring a smile to some people, but I’ll ask the question. I have a request come in “Can we use the phones to mark the start and finish time for marking the silence on 11 Nov” I thought about using a broadcast hunt group, but there are 4,000 handsets. I have read somewhere that you can only use a handfull of devices in a broadcast hunt group, so I’m looking for some divine inspiration should anyone have any to spare. obviously if it can’t be easily achieved then I do have the option to say no. Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com ___ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip ___ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
Re: [cisco-voip] Broadcast Hunt Group query
Just to put another nail in the coffin would be we have 5 sites :) I guess it will have to be the tried and tested email scatter gun. Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com On 6 Nov 2014, at 14:00, Justin Steinberg jsteinb...@gmail.com wrote: you will probably crash the system if you put 4,000 phones in a broadcast hunt group :) You would need some third party application like Singlewire Informacast, SA-Announce Synapps, etc. to get this type of functionality On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com mailto:andy.ca...@gmail.com wrote: I know that this is going to bring a smile to some people, but I’ll ask the question. I have a request come in “Can we use the phones to mark the start and finish time for marking the silence on 11 Nov” I thought about using a broadcast hunt group, but there are 4,000 handsets. I have read somewhere that you can only use a handfull of devices in a broadcast hunt group, so I’m looking for some divine inspiration should anyone have any to spare. obviously if it can’t be easily achieved then I do have the option to say no. Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com mailto:andy.ca...@gmail.com ___ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip ___ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
Re: [cisco-voip] Broadcast Hunt Group query
I had a customer ask me to do this a couple of years ago. However, they had an overhead paging system already setup, so we just setup a WAV file to be piped through that, instead of using the phones. On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com wrote: Just to put another nail in the coffin would be we have 5 sites :) I guess it will have to be the tried and tested email scatter gun. Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com On 6 Nov 2014, at 14:00, Justin Steinberg jsteinb...@gmail.com wrote: you will probably crash the system if you put 4,000 phones in a broadcast hunt group :) You would need some third party application like Singlewire Informacast, SA-Announce Synapps, etc. to get this type of functionality On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com wrote: I know that this is going to bring a smile to some people, but I’ll ask the question. I have a request come in “Can we use the phones to mark the start and finish time for marking the silence on 11 Nov” I thought about using a broadcast hunt group, but there are 4,000 handsets. I have read somewhere that you can only use a handfull of devices in a broadcast hunt group, so I’m looking for some divine inspiration should anyone have any to spare. obviously if it can’t be easily achieved then I do have the option to say no. Andy andy.ca...@gmail.com ___ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip ___ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip ___ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
