Whatever your conferencing needs, Forum has got you covered.

Forum Communications International has manufactured audio conference bridges for business, government, education, and public service markets for over 15 years. Confer III, Confer SE, and Confer Net provide low-cost, dynamically allocated, easy to install, and easy to operate audio conference bridges. The Consortium II offers sophisticated features, including "Meet Me" capabilities, with capacity ranging from 24 to 384 ports..
 

Confer ALERT Plus - Serving the Homeland Security/Public Safety Sector

The next generation of Emergency Response Collaboration is the Confer ALERT Plus.

The ALERT Plus allows not only local campus dedicated lines to ring but can call outside (PSTN) phone numbers in order to contact key emergency management personnel by cell phone.

In addition, ALERT Plus allows outside callers to initiate a blast of campus phones. An authorization code protects the system from being triggered by a wrong number or telemarketer. The ALERT Plus allows one or more phones to be class-marked as "Blast Initiator" (BI). Any phone marked as a BI can initiate the crash blast simply by picking up the emergency phone handset (on campus phone) or by calling in from the PSTN.
To maximize the impact of the ALERT Plus, peripheral equipment items such as emergency phones with unique ringer and handset retention (desk or wall mount), remote contact closure modules, remote PA/Speaker modules, and remote PA output modules are now offered that make Forum your single source for turnkey emergency crash system equipment needs.

 

Confer III – The Best Value in Teleconferencing

The Confer III is the most durable voice conference system on the market, with the most competitive price in the industry and a full menu of options, including GUI interface and ConferWeb.

This affordable, reliable system interfaces with virtually any PBX or Key system in today's evolving multi-vendor environments. Expandable in 8 port increments to 72 ports, the Confer family also offers A.L.E.R.T. Plus for first responder or crash applications.

Easily expandable, installation is virtually "plug-n-play."

Automatic gain adjustment and echo cancellation assure superior sound quality on all your conference calls. The basic Confer III is available as an eight-party stand-alone unit. For larger systems, you can purchase the Confer III card cage and add up to 9 Confer III 8-port boards (72 ports) and expand as your needs grow. The system can be divided into 4-port increments to host multiple simultaneous meetings.

Blast 911

In times of emergency, rapid, accurate, and complete communication saves lives and limits loss.

The BLAST-911 ™ Emergency Messaging Server is designed to allow simultaneous delivery of voice and text messages to tens of thousands of people within minutes, by simply making one phone call. Once triggered, the system instantaneously launches a barrage of voice and data messages to all available devices belonging to a recipient - home phone - cell phone - work phone - pager - email - wireless PDA, etc. It can repeat the message until the intended party acknowledges its receipt. This capability can be used by city, county and state governments for quick dissemination of emergency related information to large sections of their populations.

• Homeland Security Alerts: Notify general public in a certain geographical area when faced with a ‘terrorism’ situation.

• Mass Evacuations: Relay notices to specific floors of a high-rise building or entire campus or entire section of a city before, during and after major disasters (earthquakes, fires, flooding etc.).

• Weather Alerts: Send emergency alert bulletins to communities likely to be affected by hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, etc.

• Blackouts: Notify public about power failure in a neighborhood or an entire region (e.g., power grid failure).

• Multiple Group Lists: Multiple group lists can be stored and activated simultaneously to contact city administrative offices, emergency services, neighborhood watch groups, businesses, etc.

• Firebar Feature: Instant conferencing of first responders.