[Asterisk-Users] Wireless phones connected to VOIP DECT base station

[Thomas Gallaway]

steve at daviesfam.org wrote:

>On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Remco Barende wrote:
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>>Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephones. The system is more or less similar 
>>to GSM (the mobile phone) that all the speech is transmitted digitally. 
>>Also you can have (similar to GSM) unnoticeable switching from one base 
>>station to another. Most wireless phones in Europe are DECT nowadays, 
>>unless you're looking for really cheap ones.
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>In short DECT is a kick-ass cordless phone system.  Up to 8 phones, 
>intercom calls between them etc etc etc.
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>Wish someone would offer a PCI board with base-station firmware and docs 
>so I could do chan_dect.so
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There are PCI DECT Boards but I don't know if they will do base-station 
stuff.
*http://tinyurl.com/3hnq5

Maybe somebody else has more insight into this if those PCI and PCMCIA 
Dect boards can be turned into base-stations.

-- Thomas
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