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Guys, I need some info on a Multicom 2000, if anyone has any.
School needs to make existing Bogen system interface with telephone system so any extension (on the telephone system) can execute an emergency page over the Bogen speakers. If I can locate an MCTC and MCOC card and the ribbon cable to connect to the phone system, can I program the bogen to allow a tel. syst. line port to make emergency pages??
I already Know how proprietary Bogen is with the Multicom, but this one's over 10 years old and never seen a certified Bogen tech since it was installed. Nearest one is 300 miles.

Thanks
Jim

Probably something you should ask Bogen or won't they talk to other than a dealer?

-Hal

That's it exactly. You can call and possibly get a tech dispatched within a month or so, at some ridiculous rate.
I think the nearest dealer is about a 6-6 hour drive east, across the great divide.
This little town is in Southwest Colorado. The town has less than 1000 residents, so, the school can't easily afford a $2K service call + parts to set it up so the phones can page. But then Replacing the whole thing with a new Valcom Multipath gets to 5 figures. They know the end is near for the 1996 Lucent phones they have so they budgeted for that, but not for an entire new paging system.

I'm only an hour and a half from the school and have made some changes to the Bogen program, like zone assignments, but after reading the Install & Program manuals available on the Net, I'm just not sure adding the telephone system interface cards will allow PBX/Key system extensions to page through the Bogen speakers. It looks like they are for Bogen "extensions" to be able to access PBX/Key system lines/trunks to make outbound calls.
Was hoping someone had at least seen it.

I've never seen one but that's the impression I get also. Before I gave up though I would see if a "page all" could be made from a 2500 type set connected to the Bogen system as an extension. If so it might be possible to design an interface that upon ringing or going off hook from the phone system it would sieze the Bogen extension then connect the two. Hit the page all code on the phone system phone and the page should work.

Wonder what Valcom and Viking have that might work...

-Hal

Connect an unused trunk port from the Lucent system to an open staff station port on the Multicom, as described on page 17 of the installation manual. Then program the Bogen port for Level 6 access, and you should be able to page a zone or all-call page by going off hook with the Lucent trunk and then dialing the appropriate codes on the Multicom.

You do not need the additional cards you mentioned. Those cards are for allowing phones on the Multicom system to dial outside telephone lines.

You can test this out, as Hal pointed out, by connecting a standard 2500 set to the open staff station port, making the programming change and dialing the code(s). You cannot ring the 2500 set, as the Multicom does not send standard ring voltage. The MCESS described in the manual is a standard 2500 phone, with a modified ringer inside that works with the Multicom system.