With Internet-based technology from Cisco Systems and Berbee, you can broadcast announcements to one person—or to thousands of people in your school district—easily and inexpensively.

Today, more and more schools and districts are enjoying the productivity and cost-saving benefits of converging their separate voice and data systems into a single IP network. Now, through the IP Paging solution from Cisco and Berbee, you can extend these benefits to your intercom, public address, paging, and bell scheduling systems, too. With this solution, you’ll be able to:

• Target messages to specific people or groups,
• Send messages to a variety of IP devices and speaker systems
• Enjoy easy deployment and management, and
• Gain significant cost-savings.

This IP Paging solution runs Cisco CallManager and Berbee InformaCast™ software over a Cisco converged IP network. InformaCast™ enables you to broadcast a live message—or choose a prerecorded message—and deliver it to any IP device or group of devices you select, including IP phones, Power over Ethernet (PoE) IP speakers, and in the future PDAs.

With InformaCast™, audio and text messages can be sent to IP devices simultaneously, and can even be delivered to an IP phone while its being used for a voice call.

IP Paging offers improved communications compared with traditional overhead paging systems, as it allows you to:

• Deliver audio and text messages to a single room—or to your entire district— quickly and easily
• Provide greater confidentiality by directing messages to a specific building, floor, classroom, or to a single IP device
• Improve safety and reduce confusion during emergency situations
• Easily prerecord messages for later delivery

IP Paging is a more economical alternative to older, outmoded analog systems because it takes advantage of the investment you’ve already made in IP telephony. This system costs significantly less than traditional systems, which can average over $100,000, and does not require dedicated professional services, which can cost around $1,000 per day.

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