Thanks. It make perfect sense. I was just curious why the manager app is 
needed. Since the phone can see 4 AP at the same time, when it wants a call to 
be handed over to a different AP, couldn't it just send a re-invite to Asterisk 
and call it a day? 

 

>Wai,
> 
>The IP address is really on the access points, since they are the SIP
>part of the solution. Let me see how well I can explain this, The
>access points register to a manager application, running on one AP,
>and the phones have a hard coded DECT id and register to the same
>manager app. The manager actually performs the connection to the
>Asterisk system and all the access points have IP's and each phone an
>account on Asterisk. In a handover the manager app routes the SIP
>traffic to the AP that the handset is on and as the caller moves the
>phone detects other AP's and picks a new AP. That AP coordinates with
>the manager app to re-route the sip/rtp. In testing so far, you cannot
>tell the hand off occurred, even while watching the signal meters on
>the phone, there is no noticeable audio loss. There has to be a fair
>overlap in coverage, they say around -60db to -70db in signal you
>should have another AP and the phone can see up to 4 APs at a time.
>Each AP can handle 8 voice channels so you have to keep that in mind
>also. So did that make sense.


> --
> Bruce Reeves
> Nortex Networks
>


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