Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Telex Radio Dispatch System Integration with Cisco Unified Communications. Part 1

I have Telex Radio Dispatch system I want to integrate with a Cisco phone system.

Side note: Using two Cisco UCS C-Servers with VMware. Cisco' UC on UCS. Works great!

Telex system has interfaces to the radio networks and the telephone network. 

Each user has a Telex ADHB-4.  This device mixes the audio from the different Radio networks and the telephone. Coming out of the ADHB-4 is a headset for the dispatcher. The dispatcher has a desktop application were they can select different audio sources and the ability to combine audio channels.

The interface between the phone needs audio tx and rx along with on/off hook switch and ground across 6-wires.  The box/application needs the hook switch to answer and hang up calls.

I am wondering if I can create a cable from the Phone to the Telex Device. Telex provides a basic diagram:



I would think I could get TX and RX audio and Ground from the phones headset port. I would also think I could get Hook Switch from the phones aux port (this is the port used for the wireless hook switch feature).

We will see how today goes, I am almost onsite.

I'll keep you posted.

-Bill

2 comments:

  1. I'm looking to do something very similar. Did you have any luck?

    Another potential option for me would be to add a sip module on the Telex screen to connect to my backend phone system. I'm trying to decide between Cisco UC or a Asterisk based solution like Trixbox.

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  2. Yes we have this working. Look at my 2nd and 3rd posts. We looked at the SIP module for Telex and it did not look good at all. For all outbound calls the operator had to enter the dial string like this: 95551212@callmanager.domain.com, or 1234@callmanager.domain.com.

    http://billyc5022.blogspot.com/2011/02/telex-radio-dispatch-system-integration_23.html

    http://billyc5022.blogspot.com/2011/02/telex-radio-dispatch-system-integration_23.html

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