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I have a customer who has a 2811 router they are trying to configure for paging. They were told to hook paging system to fxo port on router. What they can't get an answer to is how to configure so pages goes over this port. It is only about 6 months old running call manager. I am not a cisco guy just a plain old telephone tech, but I told them I would see if I could help get some answers. Everytime they call the installer it is 350 whether they fix the issue or not. Thanks for any help.

What kind of paging system is this connecting to, and what would this paging system be expecting if it were on a more traditional piece of telecom equipment? Just an off-hook for a talk path or does it go into a system where you need to outpulse a few digits to open the page?

SIP paging or IP paging?

What I have done with these is to hook a Valcom V-9970 to an ATA and flip switch 8 on from the default setting. Assign the ATA port with a DN and just dial the DN. We have at least 50 of them installed.

I'm not sure whether this helps or not, but while taking my dad to the radiologist's office for a CAT scan and bone scan, I noticed they had a call manager on site, but they were still using an old Nortel key system for overhead paging. I guess my point is, can it even be done?

It is connecting to a valcom 2001 page control. I would assume ip paging, as it would happen over their internal network. It appears from the paperwork that it needs a co line position or a loop start trunk port.
Input impedance 600ohms
input level -10dbm nominal

When I hook this to a norstar system I just use the page tip and ring from the eq.

They have it working at the main facilty with a valcom 2009 controller, but they tell me the eq at this place is somehow different.
Hope this helps.

As I mentioned just hook this up to an ATA. You can even leave the 2001 in place and hook the 9970 to the music input on the 2001. It works great. Why someone would leave a MICS or CICS in for paging, obviously they didn't know how to interface it into Call Manager.

I see it all the time, two phones on peoples desk one cisco and one of the old phone just for paging....

Hay Gcave Can the call manager page through the phones? I know the uc500 can, but have not got to work on a full call manager yet..

another question is can asterix page through the speaker on the phones?

It can. It is really a phone brand specific feature though. Polycom phones and Aastra support it and I'm sure some others.

P2ii do you know if you can page through cisco phones hooked up to astrix?

I have a customer that thinks they have a cisco system because they have cisco phones on their desks but it is really astrix...