Viking October Newsletter

Reliable Products for Your Security and Communication Needs VOLUME 29 : ISSUE 10 OCTOBER 2017Solving the IP Paging puzzle! Get to Know Us! SIP Endpoint Paging Model 40TB-IP Name: Shantina Swanson Multicast Paging (front/speaker view) How long have you worked at Viking? Background Music I have been with Viking for 6 years Make Standard SIP Calls What are your Make Emergency SIP Calls responsibilities? I am a productPLUS Optional Wireless (side view) Remote Control specialist and customer serviceThe Viking model 40TB-IP Talk-Back Speaker enables two-way conversations via SIP and representative.also allows for standard paging and background music via multicast. The Talk-BackSpeaker easily connects with a single CAT5/6 cable from your PoE switch. Its shallow depth I enter orders, answerallows the speaker to be conveniently mounted in a standard 2” x 4” stud wall or ceiling. customer and distributor questions, travel to trade shows, and prepareAn auxiliary switch input allows a hard wired wall button to initiate a SIP call. Alternately, anoptional wireless remote call button can be used (Viking model BTR-3, see below). A marketing materials.momentary button press will initiate a standard call, and holding the button for 3 or moreseconds will initiate an emergency call. The remote can also be used to adjust the speaker Why do you like working at Viking?volume. The LED on the 40TB-IP can be programmed to blink when there is call activity. It’s a family company and I love the tightOptional Wireless Remote The integrated microphone enables knit group of people who work here. talk-back and also monitors room Everyone works together for a commonThe Viking BTR-3 Wireless Remote can be noise to automatically increase speakerpurchased separately for activating standard volume when necessary. Line-level goal and genuinely care about theand emergency calls, as well as adjusting audio output connections are provided company and one another.audio volume. for connecting to an external amplifier. Speaker output connections are also Favorite treat to share at work:• Trigger standard and provided to directly drive additional I make really good deviled eggs - they emergency calls analog speakers. were a favorite of Don Springer, founder of Viking. He even bought me a special• Adjust paging volume A programmable relay output is container so I could make him extra. provided for activating door locks,• Up to 3 year battery life strobe lights, external amplifiers, etc. What do you like to do outside work? I love to run and race competitively.• CR2032 battery included For more information on the Most weekends I am running in a 5K or 40TB-IP and BTR-3 10K race of some kind. This year I ran• Pair up to four remotes 20 miles in Ragnar, a 200 mile team see DOD 502 or call: 715-386-8861 relay race that spans two days and oneto each speaker Model BTR-3 night, it was awesome! I also enjoy spending time with my boyfriend and doing family things with our kids. And I don’t know what I would do without Netflix! Favorite quote: “I just felt like running.” - Forrest Gump

Model 40TB-IP Unfortunate events, like school shootings and spontaneous outbursts, put students Talk-Back Speaker and teachers in danger. Establishing a saferAllows teachers to signal environment by providing an easy method for teachers to signal for help is a starting that they need help. point to help reduce violent situations. Model BTR-3 Wireless Remote To make an emergency call, simply hold the button for 3 seconds. Viking’s BTR-3 can be used as a panic button to trigger model 40TB-IP SIP Talk-Back Speaker. A momentary center button press of the BTR-3 will initiate a standard call, and holding the button for 3 or more seconds will initiate an emergency call via the 40TB-IP. Thus providing an easy way for teachers to signal for help. For more information on the 40TB-IP and BTR-3 see DOD 502 or call: 715-386-8861 TRIVIA QUESTION This month in Who wrote the short story Technology Histo“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ? October 24, 1861 Everyone who calls, emails, or faxes in the correct answer by OCTOBER 31, 2017 will Transcontinental Telegrap be entered into a drawing for a delicious Line Completed Wisconsin cheese assortment - shipped Western Union completes the fi fresh directly from our local continental telegraph line ac Bass Lake Cheese Factory! United States, making (nearly) neous cross-country comm SEPTEMBER TRIVIA: possible for the first time. Prior t During the seventh inning stretch of a a letter to be sent from Missour baseball game, it’s a tradition to sing what? ANSWER: Take Me Out to the Ballgame Quick Fact: Only two days la CONGRATULATIONS to Oct JEFFERY CLEVELAND from Holovision! Fir Ou Ale Wa two wir cal Cam Pho

Viking Product Profiles: IP Paging SolutionsPoE Powered VoIP Endpoint Interfaces Analog Paging Systems with SIP and Multicast Paging SourcesThe Viking model PA-IP SIP / Multicast Paging Adapter For more information on the PA-IP,provides an interface between VoIP phone systems see DOD 505 or call: 715-386-8861(hardware or hosted/cloud based) and analog pagingsystems, eliminating the need for an ATA or FXS port. The • Amplified SIP endpoint or multicast IP paging for:PA-IP can be used for standard SIP endpoint paging or schools, hospitals, retail stores, office spaces, etc.multicast paging and background music. • Provide background music and sound maskingThe unit easily connects with a single CAT5/6 cable from • IP phone system integration with traditional analogyour PoE switch. An auxiliary trigger input allows anoptional hard wired switch or phone system trigger output amplifier (e.g. single zone voice paging)to enable loud ringing / night bell from after hour incomingcalls. Line-level audio output connections are provided forconnecting to an external amplifier.A built-in 6 Watt class D amplifier with speaker outputconnections are also provided to drive up to 6 analogspeakers. A programmable relay output is provided fortriggering external amplifiers, etc.ory IP Ceiling Speaker for SIP Endpoint Paging or Multicast Paging / Background Music ph The Viking model 40-IP Ceiling/Wall Speaker Model first trans- enables SIP endpoint paging and also allows 40-IP cross the for standard paging and background music via multicast. The speaker easily connects (front/ instanta- with a single CAT5/6 cable from your PoE speaker view)munication switch. Its shallow depth allows the speaker to be conveniently mounted in a standard 2” to this, it took ten days for x 4” stud wall or ceiling. ri to California via the Pony Express. Line-level audio output connections are ater the Pony Express shut down. provided for connecting to an external amplifier. A built-in 6 Watt class D amplifier tober 9, 1876 with speaker output connections are also provided to directly drive additional analog rst Phone Call Over speakers. The LED on the 40-IP can be utdoor Wires programmed to light during paging. exander Graham Bell and Thomas For more information on the 40-IP, atson demonstrate the first see DOD 505 or call: 715-386-8861 o-way phone call over outdoor res. Bell and Watson made their ll between the cities of Boston and mbridge. oto courtesy of Moffett Studio - Library and Archives Canada (side view)

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