User's Manual

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 receive an RTP stream from pre-configured
multicast listening address(es) without involving SIP signaling. You can specify up to 10
multicast listening addresses.
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To configure a multicast paging key via phone user interface:
1. Press Menu->Call Features->DSS Keys.
2. Select the desired DSS key.
3. Press or , or the Switch soft key to select Key Event from the Type field.
4. Press or , or the Switch soft key to select Multicast Paging from the Key
Event field.
5. (Optional.) Enter the string that will appear on the LCD screen in the Label field.
6. Enter the multicast IP address and port number (e.g., 224.5.6.20:10008) in the Value
field.
The valid multicast IP addresses range from 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255.
7. Press the Save soft key to accept the change or the Back soft key to cancel.
Multicast paging key is configurable via web user interface at the path DSSKey->Line
Key.
You can also configure the phone to use a default codec for sending multicast RTP
stream via web user interface.
To configure a default codec for multicast paging via web user interface:
1. Click on Features->General Information.