>>> 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. > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > 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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