Specifications

Technology Upgrade Paging Bell System-One Way 28 1800-2
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PART 2 - PRODUCTS
2.01 MANUFACTURERS
A. The manufacturer of the paging/bell system shall have been designing, manufacturing, and
installing systems for a period of no less than 5 years.
B. Approved manufacturers,
1. Valcom
2. Bogen
3. Rauland
4. Carehawk
5. Others as approved.
2.02 MATERIALS
A. The paging system and associated bell system shall provide at a minimum the following
functions and features:
1. The integrated paging/bell system shall allow administrators to make announcements
or sound tone events to any individually wired group of speakers, or any
electronically combined group of speakers.
2. Administrators shall be able to access the speakers through any telephone tied
directly into the telephone system or designated paging system handset.
3. Talkback from the classroom to the telephone.
4. System shall interface with any telephone system, thus allowing an upgrade or
replacement of the telephone system without suffering a requirement to replace, or
lose any feature of, their paging system. Any system that limits system features based
upon any selected telephone system, and/or is proprietary to one or only a few
telephone systems shall not be acceptable.
5. Pass codes shall be available to restrict access to the system if the owner deems
them necessary.
6. Speaker zones shall be software assignable to different owner required groups.
These groups shall be independent of the time/bell groups.
7. Provide time/bell schedules with the ability to automatically administer 8 or more
schedules at any given time.
a. Each scheduled event shall be capable of utilizing any one of 5 user defined
internal tones/auxiliary sources. Automatically administered schedules shall be
capable of simultaneous operation.
b. Schedule administration, modification and creation functions must be available
through administration PC software.
c. Systems that do not allow the management of schedules with PC software
shall not be acceptable.
8. Distribution of general announcements shall be possible from any administrative
telephone, staff telephone, or classroom telephone. The system shall be capable of
providing all-call, group call, multiple group call, or dial-on-the-fly page groups.
9. The system shall provide for the distribution of emergency announcement(s) from any
authorized telephone to all areas furnished with a loudspeaker. Emergency
announcements shall have the highest system priority
10. The system shall be a global switching system, providing eight (8) unrestricted
simultaneous private telephone paths.
11. The system shall also be capable of providing up to eight (8) simultaneous amplified-
voice intercom paths. One amplified intercom path shall automatically be provided
with each increment of 24 stations of system capacity.
a. All hardware, etc., required to achieve the maximum number of amplified-voice
intercom channels for this system shall be included in this submittal.