Advanced Phone Features
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You can use multicast paging to quickly and easily forward time sensitive
announcements out to people within the multicast group. You can configure a multicast
paging key on the phone, which allows you to send a Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
stream to the pre-configured multicast address(es) without involving SIP signaling. You
can configure the phone to allow it to receive a RTP stream from pre-configured
multicast listening address(es) without involving SIP signaling. You can specify up to 10
multicast listening addresses.
To configure a multicast paging key via phone user interface:
1. Press .
2. Select Features->DSS Keys.
3. Select the desired DSS key.
4. Press or to select Key Event from the Type field.
5. Press or to select Multi-Paging from the Key Type field.
6. Enter the multicast IP address and port number (e.g. 224.5.6.20:10008) in the Value
field.
7. Press to accept the change.
You can also configure a multicast paging key via web user interface at the path
Phone->DSS Keys.
You can also configure the phone to use a default codec for sending multicast RTP
stream via web interface.
To configure a default codec for multicast paging:
1. Click on Phone->Features->General Information>>.
2. Select the desired codec from the pull-down list of Multicast Codec.
3. Click Confirm to accept the change.
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