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Integrating Digital Signage with VoIP Paging Systems
Jay Brant • Jun 04, 2025
Paging systems are a fascinating communications technology space.
When setting up a paging system, you need to be thinking about at least three similar but distinct functions: voice paging, background music, and audio alerts, which includes both emergency alerts and everyday alerts like ringing for the end of class in a school.
There are even more functions that a paging system
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Paging Systems for Schools
Jay Brant • Apr 25, 2025
Who doesn’t remember the sound of a bell ringing to tell you class is starting… and you’re still running up the steps to the front door? Then the principal’s voice playing in science class telling the teacher to send a certain tardy student to their office? And who doesn’t remember the sweet, sweet sound of the bell telling you to get out and go h
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What Are Sound Masking Speakers?
Jay Brant • Apr 11, 2025
Paging speakers, also known as PA speakers, are most often used for one of three purposes: voice broadcasts, emergency alerts, and background music.
But there’s another use for paging speakers that can be vital in certain situations: sound masking.
Sound masking speakers are paging speakers that play ambient background sound to camouflage distracting sounds, in parti
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