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

[Michael J. Liberatore]

My number one recommendation is be VERY VERY Careful.  You could be
selling the biggest nightmare to you and the customer ever.

I have tried almost all the wifi sip phones and they are ALL sub par.
Range is terrible on most, but mainly its staying connected to the ap's
all the time and especially multiaccess points that causes issues.  The
hitachi phone I tried, the 5000, it was bad, it doesn't support wpa,
that's crazy.  No firmware updates in a while either so its not coming.
The new one maybe does, the ae.

The utstarcom one never stayed connected either.

Anyways the best is what the other guy said, phones that are not wifi
but integrated with sip, that might be worth looking into.  I assume the
hotel already has the access points that's why you are doing this? Well
I can see the reason, my recommendation, do extensive testing first with
the phones you are looking at, as in multi day testing to make sure the
phones stay connected and get all the calls.

Mike

 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
sunil at koltelecom.com
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:27 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
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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