Fire Command Centers (Fcc) - Siemens FIREFINDER-XLS Installation, Operation And Maintenance Manual

FIREFINDER-XLS INSTALLATION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE MANUAL
NCC MANAGEMENT STATIONS

FIRE COMMAND CENTERS (FCC)

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GCNET and Galactic Voice
GCNET provides connection of multiple independent XLS configurations ("Build-
ings") to NCC Management Stations for event annunciation and control from all
nodes in all Buildings.
Desigo CC and Cerberus DMS Management Stations are not supported on GCNET.
The NCC Management Station additionally provides display of the connection state
and status of each VNT and of the XNET network associated with each VNT.
Each Node in a GCNET system is assigned a logical address in the Management
Station.
The FCC provides a Galactic Voice station for single-point paging and control and
annunciation of the Voice system of a site. The FCC functionality is provided by
GCNET, which connects multiple independent XLS network configurations (each
called a "Building").
Each FCC consists of two parts:
1. The Galactic Switches, Galactic SCM and LVM, which operate on the
switches provided by each Building and provide the Galactic paging micro-
phone.
2. The VLinks for each Building, which are the switches assigned to the FCC
by each Building through the Building's Zeus configuration.
The Galactic switches typically consist of the following:
1. Galactic Request/Galactic Grant/Galactic Deny switches
2. Galactic Page
3. Galactic Evac 1, Galactic Evac 2, Galactic Alert 1, and Galactic Alert 2
4. Galactic Clear Manual
5. Lamp Test
6. FCC Trouble Sounder
The VLinks for each Building typically contains the following:
1. A list of Speaker Groups to be controlled/monitored
2. A set of Voice Applications to be performed on the Speaker Groups (for
example, ALL CALL, SELECT EVAC, etc.)
3. Request/Grant/Deny access switches
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