[Asterisk-Users] Wireless phones connected to VOIP DECT basestation

[Remco Barende]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, dean collins wrote:

> No those cards are used to connect wirelessly to a base station.
>
> Basically like an 802.11x card connects to a base station.
>
> What Remco means is that he wants someone to release software that would
> sit on your pc. All a PCI card to connect to base stations and perform
> those functions.
>
> Remco, look into the Kirk h323 solution, this does what you need.

Thanks for the excellent explanation on DECT!

I will probably order the base station, it seems like an almost ideal 
solution to connect phones to a voip pabx. I would not prefer a pci card 
solution personally, anything connected to the network doesn't cause irq 
headaches :)

I'll probably buy the Tiptel version of the Kirk because it's available 
locally (unless the price difference is huge), but they have two models 
supporting different protocols.

Which protocol would be better h323 or SCCP to connect to *?

There are some features described on the website specific to SCCP model:
     * Caller hold (only with Cisco Call Manager Express)
     * Support for Cisco Call Manager versie 3.3 (3)
     * Support for Cisco SRST (Survivable Remote Site Telefony) 3.0
     * Support for Cisco Call Manager Express versie 3.0

Not sure whether I would really need it and I don't understand the part 
about caller on hold feature. Surely they can't be serious that you cannot 
put a caller on hold and transfer the call on the h323 version? I'll put 
that question to them on monday.

Thanks!!

>
>
> Cheers,
> Dean
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Thomas
> Gallaway
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 3:51 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Wireless phones connected to VOIP DECT
> basestation
>
> steve at daviesfam.org wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Remco Barende wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> In short DECT is a kick-ass cordless phone system.  Up to 8 phones,
>> intercom calls between them etc etc etc.
>>
>> Wish someone would offer a PCI board with base-station firmware and
> docs
>> so I could do chan_dect.so
>>
>>
> 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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