VOIP, The Right Choice?
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Posted by on August 4, 2007, 7:45 am
Please log in for more thread options Hello, I have been trying to find an answer for several weeks and have had no luck. I am a software designer, and I am trying to find a solution to a problem. I would like to send an audio signal, such as "good", or play a bell for good, or to say "bad" or play a buzzer sound for bad. I would like to be able to do this over a from one PC to multiple headsets/headphones. This would not be a "global broadcast", meaning I may choose to send "good" to headset number 1, but send nothing to the other headsets. These same headsets would be wireless. My range is about 15-30 feet. What I can't seem to find is a device to do this. I don't care if it is a small battery powered "black box" that I can send audio to and plug a headset into, or if it is an actual headphone that allows you to communicate to it via TCPIP. Does such an item exist? | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by fugettaboutit on August 4, 2007, 8:29 am
Please log in for more thread options It sounds like you need to utilize multicast so you can communicate with a select set of receivers (multicast groups). I also assume you run a VoIP environment? If so, take a look at this link...don't know if it's exactly what you need, but it might get you closer: http://www.twistpair.com/index/webapp-knowledgebase-action?articleid=80 Good luck! RFleming@NationalSteel.com wrote: | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by GeekBoy on August 6, 2007, 10:20 pm
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> It sounds like you need to utilize multicast so you can communicate with
Multicast will not work until TCP/IP v6 is implemented. > a select set of receivers (multicast groups). I also assume you run a VoIP
> environment? If so, take a look at this link...don't know if it's exactly > what you need, but it might get you closer: > > http://www.twistpair.com/index/webapp-knowledgebase-action?articleid=80 > > > Good luck! > > > RFleming@NationalSteel.com wrote: >> Hello,
>> >> I have been trying to find an answer for several weeks and have had no >> luck. I am a software designer, and I am trying to find a solution to >> a problem. I would like to send an audio signal, such as "good", or >> play a bell for good, or to say "bad" or play a buzzer sound for bad. >> I would like to be able to do this over a from one PC to multiple >> headsets/headphones. This would not be a "global broadcast", meaning >> I may choose to send "good" to headset number 1, but send nothing to >> the other headsets. These same headsets would be wireless. My range >> is about 15-30 feet. What I can't seem to find is a device to do >> this. I don't care if it is a small battery powered "black box" that >> I can send audio to and plug a headset into, or if it is an actual >> headphone that allows you to communicate to it via TCPIP. Does such >> an item exist? >> | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by fugettaboutit on August 7, 2007, 7:36 am
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That is not correct, as multicast is certainly not limited to IPv6. I use multicast in my IPv4 net for music-on-hold services enterprise-wide, both LAN and WAN subnets. Over a thousand devices are configured as multicast groups. Also, Berbee produced a product that streamed multicast audio streams to existing 7900 series IP phones. It was their product, but I believe there are others out there. Again, IPv6 is not a determining factor for multicast operation. GeekBoy wrote: >> It sounds like you need to utilize multicast so you can communicate with
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> I have been trying to find an answer for several weeks and have had no
> luck. I am a software designer, and I am trying to find a solution to
> a problem. I would like to send an audio signal, such as "good", or
> play a bell for good, or to say "bad" or play a buzzer sound for bad.
> I would like to be able to do this over a from one PC to multiple
> headsets/headphones. This would not be a "global broadcast", meaning
> I may choose to send "good" to headset number 1, but send nothing to
> the other headsets. These same headsets would be wireless. My range
> is about 15-30 feet. What I can't seem to find is a device to do
> this. I don't care if it is a small battery powered "black box" that
> I can send audio to and plug a headset into, or if it is an actual
> headphone that allows you to communicate to it via TCPIP. Does such
> an item exist?
>