[asterisk-users] Wi-SIP vs. SIP-DECT

[Michael Graves]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:41:16 +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote:

>"Michael Graves" <mgraves at mstvp.com> writes:
>
>> DECT was designed from the start to handle voice and data.
>
>553kbps isn't particularly useful today. Even 3G is faster.
>
>Not that I have ever seen products offering more than ISDN speeds, and
>I believe that was before 2000. DECT is excellent, but it appears that
>"the market" expects it to be replaced by 802.1<something> once power
>consumption gets low enough.

Clearly DECT is not a data solution in the larger sense. But Wifi has a
long way to go before it can truly compete with DECT solutions
available today.

You have to really truly need the converged data+voice aspect of wifi
for it to make sense.

Michael
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