andrewshriner

Does anyone know if the following is possible?

The school that I work at has a paging system that uses telephones to page out on. Here's how it works... a user picks up an analog phone that is connected only to the paging system. The user can then dial a room number, and is connected to the paging system in it, or dial "#X", where X is the zone they want. They say their message, and listen to the return circuit if needed, and then hang up. Upon disconnecting, the system disconnects whichever PA/speaker system that the user was connected to, just as a normal phone system would.

Here's what I would like to do:

Is it possible to somehow connect the paging system to the Norstar phone system? I would need people to be able to dial an extension, such as they would any phone, but be connected to the paging system instead of a phone. If I could do that, then I would be great. I believe that all I would have to do is connect an ATA device to the system... am I correct? From there, I can just run a line to the PA system control. That appears to be all that is being done now, is an analog phone circuit is running to the system.

Finally, is there any way to specify who is allowed to call the specified extension, that would be assigned to the PA system? I wouldn't really want any student that knows the extension to be able to call in and make pages across the building... I suppose we could physically unplug the circuit during school hours, but that would still be a pain.

I'm at home right now, so I'm not sure, but I believe that the paging system is a Bogen FR-2000, if that helps.

Any comments, thoughts, or suggestions?

Andrew Shriner