>>> On 4/1/2009 at 11:43 AM, in message
<[email protected]>, Jim Canfield
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Scott Lawrence
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >> Sounds like the same issues, however, these are all on the same
> >> campus.  As far as I can tell, the small zone paging groups are
> >> working fine.  Would be interesting to do some packet traces and see
> >> what is going on here.  I'm assuming the page broadcast is UDP.
> >
> > It's not a broadcast - it's many many unicasts.
> >
> > Paging was never meant to work with nearly that many phones in a group.
> > I recommend that you either:  get an overhead system that's designed for
> > paging (there are sip-capable ones), or identify a much smaller number
> > (<15) phones that are geographically distributed enough and use only
> > those.
> >
> 
> Ouch!  ..Thanks Scott.
> 
> I already have a Valcom (VIP-801) on the way and will be going back to
> the traditional 70v system for all page.  Just FYI, we had a cyberdata
> paging amp installed for this purpose and it's complete crap.  Took to
> long to pick up and couldn't not turn off the announce tone. My hopes
> are high for the Valcom product, however, something tells me I should
> stick with ATA's...I'll post an update when we have a workable
> solution.
> 
> We have reduced the paging group size considerably, turns out, it was
> causing the PageServer to crash as well.  Watchdog kind enough to keep
> restarting it.  Perhaps there should be a limit placed on the paging
> group size considering it's unicast traffic.
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Good to know of your issues with the Cyberdata. I was thinking of trying their 
simple door call system. Maybe I'll keep looking. Valcom should work well for 
you. Mike Picher I think has had good experience with it.

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