Spectrum® 520 School Intercom System

Spectrum 520, designed to meet the communication and security needs of K–12 facilities, provides comprehensive communication and management for education environments.

The Spectrum 520 accommodates up to 672 stations in increments of eight and is available in wall-mounted modular architecture or a space saving rack-mountable design option. Spectrum 520 supports a full range of school communications functions including classroom-to-administration intercom, class change and warning tone signals, and multi-zone paging and program distribution. Systems can easily be networked using traditional copper lines or with fiber optic transceivers to allow the Spectrum 520 to adapt to any campus-environment. By combining digital networking technologies with user-friendly master and call-in stations, Spectrum 520 delivers a complete communication system that meets the safety and security needs of today's K–12 facilities.

Seamless Integration
Spectrum 520 seamlessly integrates to Caller ID-compatible PBX or EKSU systems, allowing any telephone to function as an administrative master station with full-LCD display support. Spectrum delivers duplex, non-blocking voice communication with instant connectivity and clear, crisp sound quality to provide an effective and comprehensive school intercom system.

Spectrum 520 Capabilities

.Call-in Intercom
• Classrooms can place either routine or emergency calls to office (multiple call levels available)
• Place two different call types using a single button
• Single or multiple call destinations (example: routine to secretary, emergency to principal and security)
• Hands-free, amplified, two-way voice communication from anywhere in the classroom
• Clear, crisp teacher-to-office communication
• Calls are sorted by priority and displayed on an LCD display and may be answered in any order
• Calls placed to the master station display a programmable name or location
• Programmable call text
• Simultaneous intercom, paging, and program distribution with multiple audio channels
• Call-assurance tones at call-in stations and call-placed tones at master stations

Paging
• Page from any phone, control console, or microphone
• Page to all room speakers, groups of rooms, or a single room
• Single-touch, emergency page to all rooms from consoles or desktop   microphones
• Page to Public Address page zones
• Page to preprogrammed groups or create your own custom group

Safety Tones and Messaging
• Single-touch Emergency Warning Tone button sounds on all speakers   in the facility
• Single-touch Emergency Page button for instant voice messaging   throughout the facility

Master Clock
• Imbedded master clock provides programmable class change signaling for eight times schedules and 1024 events
• Provides secondary clock correction (using the Cat. 5278 Secondary Clock Interface)
• Remote schedule updates possible via modem connection

Scheduling Tones
• Send class-change tones on a room/group-selectable basis
• Choose from a menu of different tone types

Programming Distribution
• Select and distribute up to four simultaneous program sources such   as CD, tape, and AM/FM tuner
• Digital display aids the setup of source selection
• Initiate distribution from any control console