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Leverage the power of live intrusive audio using our IP paging system.
When you need people to stop what they’re doing and take action, using an audio ip paging system can be a powerful tool to help spread the word. InformaCast enables you to send live and recorded audio pages to all of your facility speakers. It can even turn your existing desk phones into speakers to broadcast pages. With flexible options for how and where messages are delivered, InformaCast has the communication solutions your organization needs to keep people informed when it matters most.
Effectively notify people of critical information with a robust IP paging system.
Live and Recorded Audio
Intrusive audio is an effective way to interrupt ongoing activities and grab people’s attention. With InformaCast, organizations can leverage existing overhead paging systems, IP speakers, and desk phones to deliver live and recorded audio pages throughout their facilities. With the push of a button, users can begin a live audio broadcast, start recording a message or initiate pre-recorded messages to play over speakers.
PushToTalk
Emergency situations require easy and immediate communication solutions. PushToTalk is a walkie-talkie/intercom InformaCast feature that facilitates communication between multiple parties or on a one-to-one basis with the press of a button. PushToTalk can also be used for full-duplex intercom. In this mode, both parties can talk and listen at the same time. Part of what makes this feature unique is when a PushToTalk intercom session is initiated, the person on the receiving end doesn’t have to be near their phone. They can reply without needing to press any buttons or pick up a receiver. This can be particularly helpful in classrooms when a teacher is requesting assistance.
Groups and Zones
Direct your audio messages to the right people with InformaCast. Create groups to send audio pages only to specified devices and create zones so a message is played only on a particular floor or building wing. This helps get information to the people who need it without disturbing other ongoing activities.
Legacy Paging System Integration
Implementing new technology doesn’t mean you have to get rid of what’s already working. InformaCast offers two options to leverage legacy analog paging systems with our notification software. A zone controller can register with InformaCast and have an audio line out that can then connect to existing paging amplifiers and analog speakers. The other option is the InformaCast Legacy Paging Interface which uses dialing from a PBX or phone system to deliver an audio page.
Paging Gateway
Certain environments make it difficult to use the multicast audio streaming InformaCast requires across the WAN (wide area network), due to either routing or bandwidth limitations. That’s why Singlewire offers a Paging Gateway to help overcome these challenges and enable organizations to send audio to remote sites. The Paging Gateway takes a unicast audio stream and converts it to multicast audio that phones and IP speakers can receive and play. The paging gateway is available as hardware or a virtual appliance.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. Paging is a core part of InformaCast. You can send live and recorded audio pages to overhead speakers, IP speakers, and desk phones across one building or every site you manage. Pages can reach everyone at once or a specific group or zone.
Yes. InformaCast can be used as an IP paging system to send audio announcements over your network instead of a closed, hard-wired public address system. Because the audio travels over the network, the same page can reach speakers, IP phones, and other connected devices in any building. That flexibility is what lets you page one wing or every site from a single place.
You can send a page from a desk phone, the InformaCast mobile app, the web interface, or a designated button. There are three types of page to choose from: pre-recorded messages, talk-and-send messages you record in the moment, and live audio you speak as it happens. Each one can go to the devices, groups, or zones you select.
Yes. Dial an extension and speak, or use the InformaCast mobile app to record and broadcast a message right away. The extension can sit on a speed dial or a one-touch button, so a page becomes a single press. Mobile recipients are notified at the same time, so people away from a speaker still know something has happened.
No. InformaCast is software that unifies the paging equipment you already own. Overhead paging systems, analog speakers, IP speakers, and desk phones can all deliver pages, so you can modernize how paging works without replacing what already works. Over 100 technology integrations connect the rest of your systems to the same platform.
Yes. There are two ways to do it. A zone controller can register with InformaCast and connect through an audio line out to your existing paging amplifiers and analog speakers. Or the InformaCast Legacy Paging Interface uses dialing from your phone system to deliver the page. Either way, analog and IP speakers hear the same message.
Yes. InformaCast can broadcast audio through the speakers built into your desk phones, adding coverage in offices, classrooms, and other rooms without an overhead speaker. Desk phones can also start a page, so staff can share information from the device already sitting in front of them.
Yes. Groups let you send a page only to specified devices, and zones let you limit a message to a particular floor, wing, or building. You can also page every site at once. Targeting keeps the right people informed without interrupting activities everywhere else.
No. Paging handles daily announcements such as staff meetings, schedule changes, and shift information, along with time-sensitive alerts that need immediate attention. The same setup covers both, so the way you page every day is the way you page when seconds count.
Yes. Where network routing or bandwidth makes multicast audio difficult to send across a wide area network, the Singlewire Paging Gateway converts the audio so phones and IP speakers at remote sites can receive and play it. It is available as hardware or a virtual appliance.