[asterisk-biz] Rugged Wifi SIP phones

[Steve Totaro]

On Jan 17, 2008 12:27 PM, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> We're looking for wifi SIP phones to use with our Asterisk PBX in a
> manufacturing environment.  We are presently using the Hitachi ones.
> While they are fine for office use, they are not rugged enough for
> factory use.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on phones that are rugged enough to use
> in a factory?
>
> And equally important, can they be provisioned in bulk via Linux?
>
> Most of the SIP phones I've used, both wired and wireless, can be
> configured to download provisioning information via plain text or XML
> files stored on an  FTP, TFTP, or HTTP server.  The one rugged wifi
> SIP phone I've seen so far "maybe" can do that according to the
> salespeople, but they really are trying to push me into some Windows
> dock provisioning thingy.  Ugh.
>
> -- John
> <http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz>


Any reason you are not looking at DECT phones instead of WiFi?

Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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