Abstract: A system and method are provided for control and integration of a school intercom system within each of a plurality of schools within a school district. The plurality of school intercom systems are controlled, at the district level, by a district datacenter which administers a web-based user interface. An administrator can log into the web-based user interface to configure the functionality of the various school intercom systems within the various schools of the districts. The log in credentials control which schools the administrator will have access to. Over the web-based user interface, the school administrator can configure the school intercom systems such that they are configured to perform several functions such as live paging, event schedule management, emergency event management and running pre-defined sequence events.

Abstract: A multi-link communication system includes a number of stations and interconnecting audio links under the control of a central computer. Each station is addressable by the computer for connecting selected stations to a selected audio link for establishing audio communication between stations. Each station has at least one corresponding access circuit for establishing an audio connection to a selected or preassigned link, and the connection is maintained by a corresponding memory circuit that is addressable by the computer. A group of output lines from the computer are used as select inputs to an analog multiplexer connecting a bidirectional control line to the selected access circuit for connecting or disconnecting the corresponding station and also for receiving connect or disconnect requests from the corresponding station. In a particular embodiment, the stations include multi-link dial and dialless telephones, single-link dialless telephones, and intercom speakers in an automatic private branch exchange.