Optional Software Components

Learn about the other products that you can implement with Vocera Server.

Vocera also offers the following optional software components:

• Vocera SIP Telephony Gateway integrates the Vocera Voice Server with your telephone system, allowing badges and telephones to communicate seamlessly. The telephony software provides a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) telephony gateway between the Vocera Voice Server and an IP PBX or a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway. Vocera SIP Telephony Gateway supports non-SIP enabled PBXs via Dialogic Media Gateway or other SIP/TDM gateway products.

• Vocera Client Gateway supports Vocera Smartphones and Vocera Collaboration Suite clients, providing a signaling and multimedia gateway from the phones to the Vocera Voice Server for all calls.

• Report Server Software uses log files generated by the Vocera Voice Server to create an extensive set of reports. Some reports can help you spot usage trends, keep track of badges, and monitor call volume. Other reports help you diagnose end-user and network issues related to the Vocera system.

• Vocera Messaging InterfaceVocera Messaging Interface enables two-way messaging between the Vocera Communications System and third-party applications, such as nurse call systems, patient monitoring systems, supply management systems, point of sale and other store management applications, network management software, HVAC, industrial alarms and other enterprise applications. The Vocera Messaging Interface supersedes the nurse call interface offered with earlier versions of Vocera.

• Vocera Administration Interface is a Java API that enables you to control and administer the Vocera system programmatically.