Singlewire Paging Gateway for deploying InformaCast Across a WAN

Posted on June 26, 2012

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Send Audio Across the WAN

Singlewire’s InformaCast® solution uses multicast in order to provide the speed and scalability of network-based mass notification. Some environments make it difficult to use multicast audio streaming across the WAN (wide area network), either due to routing or bandwidth limitations. With the Singlewire Paging Gateway™ you can send audio across the WAN without needing to route multicast across the WAN.

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Here's how it works:

Within InformaCast, send an audio message
Audio is sent from InformaCast unicast to the Paging Gateway over the WAN
The Paging Gateway at the remote site turns the unicast audio into multicast audio
The phones and IP speakers receive and play the multicast audio

You can choose whether to run Paging Gateway on a server you supply or on a ready-to-run appliance from Singlewire. To deploy one or more Paging Gateways, you must also be running the InformaCast virtual appliance 8.0.2 or higher.

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InformaCast provided us with a unified system with ease of management that allows us to even communicate with the baseball field and the weightlifting room wirelessly.

— Elena Alvarez, Technology Director, Christopher Columbus High School —

It worked very successfully. We were able to do a complete lockdown on our whole campus within about five minutes of initiating the alert to people.

— Rob Crockett, Network Administrator, Ouachita Baptist University —

… InformaCast is really the glue for our notification - it can pull in email, our phone system, our speaker system, our visible security system, locks, and make it all work together.

— Shandor Simon, Director of Information Technology, Latin School of Chicago —

…It provides a consistent means of communicating and informing regarding an incident to, not just our first responders in those multiple agencies, but also to our staff and parents who are in multiple buildings, and our students in multiple buildings.

— Tom Wohlleber, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, MCPASD —

Bells and paging are one of the most important things for schools... in my opinion, it’s still the most critical, and so choosing the right system and the right partner is very important. The Singlewire system has fit the bill for us.

— David Massaro, Coordinator of Technology Services at Redlands Unified School District —

Singlewire Paging Gateway for deploying InformaCast Across a WAN

Send Audio Across the WAN

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