[Asterisk-Users] Would DECT cordless phones work with Asterisk and VOIP?

[Michael Graves]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:46:17 -0600, Larry Alkoff wrote:

>I've just heard about DECT which is used for about 50 million phones in 
>Europe and is just starting to appear in the US.
>
>DECT stands for Digitally Enhanced Cordless Telephone
>and supposedly has much greater range than other cordless telephony.
>Additionally, you can purchase repeaters that will greatly range.
>
>Since reading about poor audio quality and echo issues caused by 
>repeated conversions as the signal traverses the path from the (possibly 
>POTS analogue) station, over tcp/ip and to destination,
>would DECT (another digital form) agravate this?
>
>In my house, a Uniden 5.8 and Panasonic 2.4 cordless system would only 
>work over about 35 feet indoors - not enough for a large house.
>
>Does anyone have any hands-on experience with DECT?
>
>Larry

The DECT implementation we see in the US are I presume deployed with
normal analog line connections, unlike in Europe where many phones are
ISDN based. Thus you may not be able to avoid the D > A > D conversion.


ISDN cards that work with US standard ISDN lines are essentially
unheard of. Many of us who have been dissatisfied with small FXO
adapters would LOVE to order up ISDN lines and skip the whole FXO
problem altogether. There are several/many ISDN cards that work with
Asterisk in Europe. I've yet to find even one that would work with an
SBC ISDN drop.

I'd welcome someone proving me wrong on this.

Michael Graves

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