tweak group-page to call entire company

[Slave2Avaya]

Our Avaya guy left so we struggle with more advanced stuff so bear with me.

I've been told that we need a broadcast system in the company that will alert the entire company of an emergency. I have gotten to the point where I have a vague idea of how I would like to do this but I am open to new ideas. Here's my plan: We have group-pages per department. I would create a phone station for each one of those and pool them into its own group-page extension. So the idea is that if I call the parent group-page for the company it will dial all the extensions. The extensions will forward via predetermined coverage-path remote lines back to the group-page extensions thus calling everyone in the department group-pages. brilliant right?

Overview: Company group-page -> Extensions -> Coverage-path remote 1 (department group-page extensions go here) -> Department group-pages.

My problem is that I dont want to hook up a bunch of voip phones and stick em in a room in order to forward to the coverage-paths, if this would even work.

If there is another idea Iam totally willing to do it.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Slave2Avaya]

bump....

 

[phoneguy55]

buy a paging system.

 

[Slave2Avaya]

They dont want to spend any money but they want an efficient means to do this.

 

[phoneguy55]

read up on push sdk. You can build a web server. You go there record a file. Then push that file to all IP phones. Its all custom, so good luck.

 

[Slave2Avaya]

Push SDK looks like it could work for what we need but where does it get installed to? Is it its own seperate server? What OS does it require? Remember I am new to Avaya.

Im looking at documentation but it isnt very clear about a starting point in this regard.

 

[montyzummer]

On the coverage path idea you could try this with virtual extensions , unsure if it would work but worth a try as a test.

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[avayasmith]

how many phones need to be alerted in a crisis? if it's 127 or less build a new group page that includes everyone in the company, and only use it for a crisis.

i prefer clarity to agreement - dennis prager

 

[avayasmith]

you do have to make sure (Special Application) SA9096 is stroked to "y" in order to get 127 members in a paging group. keep in mind you need enough voip resources to make a page to everyone...

i prefer clarity to agreement - dennis prager