# Asterisk phone call vs paging? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/asterisk-phone-call-vs-paging/61714 "2009-01-22T05:15:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/asterisk-phone-call-vs-paging/61714/1 "2009-01-22T05:15:45Z")
Oh boxxa little help? Do you know the technical differences between a normal phone call and paging all the phones in an office? I was having an issues with polycom traversing NAT so I started using siprox which works great for incoming/outgoing calls…Now I have an issue where in side paging won’t work on my test network. I was going to just watch all the traffic and see whats getting dumped out just curious if anyone had any thoughts… Oddly enough if I replace the current firewall with a linksys which works fine and needs no sip proxying paging works fine…so some packets are getting lost… ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/asterisk-phone-call-vs-paging/61714/2 "2009-01-22T06:35:43Z")
Are you using the speaker on the phones to page or are you actually dialing a extension to hit a paging unit for an overhead speaker system? > **[Asterisk Paging and Intercom - VoIP-Info](https://www.voip-info.org/asterisk-paging-and-intercom)** > > Paging and Intercom On legacy phone systems you can find the following kinds of paging: Dial a code to connect to a separate overhead paging and announcement system (like in an airport) Dial a code and connect directly... ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/asterisk-phone-call-vs-paging/61714/3 "2009-01-22T06:58:12Z")
> **[Asterisk cmd Page - VoIP-Info](https://www.voip-info.org/asterisk-cmd-page)** > > Page() Synopsis Pages phones, i.e. transmit a message thru multiple phone (and/or their loudspeakers) Description Page(Technology/Resource&Tech2/Res2…\[|options\]) Places outbound calls to the given technology / resource and dumps them into a... Speaker on the phones… Its probably something to do with siproxd…but configuration doesn’t give me much to fuck with…