[asterisk-users] Recommendations for 100 Wifi SIP phone setup

[Jacob Lefkowitz]

For campus installations such as this, you may want to look at Polycom 
(Spectralink) phones.  They are more expensive but are designed for tough 
environments and are of better quality than any of the consumer-oriented 
phones.

Asterisk should be fine for an installation of this size, no need for SER. 
You can even set this up without registering the endpoints because they will 
be on a LAN and you can use static LAN IPs for each individual phone.

Beyond technical considerations, you will have to be very aware of practical 
matters such as broken phones and stolen phones.  In hospitals you can 
pretty much bet on replacing your total phone pool every year, so when 
installing a system like this you are not buying 100 phones, you are buying 
100 phones PER YEAR.  In a hotel I can imagine it would be even worse in 
terms of stolen phones.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <sunil at koltelecom.com>
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Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:26 PM
Subject: [asterisk-users] Recommendations for 100 Wifi SIP phone setup


> Hi all,
>
>
> Im preparing a quote for a 5 Star hotel, planning to have around 100
> SIP Wifi phones for PBX operations running on 100 AccessPoints.
> Network is running in ARUBA Networks - AP70 access points.
>
> The initial recommendation is to go for Hitachi Wifiphones, but i
> would like to know from the group the recommendations. Im planning to
> put up Asterisk as the PBX, Please advice me the do's and donts as i'm
> not experienced on such heavy installation which are mission critical.
> I had been using asterisk on small profiles and this would be my first
> Pro setup with wifi handsets if all goes as planned.
>
> the Key Questions are
>
> Is Asterisk good enough? or do we need a another Proxy like SER?
>
> What is the experience with Hitachi Wifi phone's? Any specific Issues?
>
> Any such installations done? Please do a detail
>
> Looking for experiences..
>
> Thanks
>
> Sunil Charly
> Manager - Business Planning
> KOLTELECOM
>
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