Abstract: Telecommunications switches for connecting circuits across a network and having an emergency notification system that allows access to customer premise equipment, such as a telephone, mobile telephone, VOIP telephone, or any other type of customer premise equipment, and delivers to that CPE an alarm or another message. The telecommunication switch may include a dial plan server that will allow a security officer or other user to develop a dialing plan that controls telecommunication switch such that identification numbers, typically telephone numbers, can be dialed by the switch to call CPE throughout the telecommunication network. Additionally, the dialing plan allows the security officer to divide and organize an institution into different sectors, and these different sectors may be delivered different messages. The sectors may be geographic, they may be organized based on the classification of individuals within the institution, or they may be based on some other characteristic.