Anybody care to muse on Wi-SIP vs. SIP-DECT? My limited research indicates that none of the WiSip phones will ever be able to match the performance of DECT phones. Maybe I'm wrong but a Wi-SIP phone seems like a DIESEL sports car. There is nothing wrong with the technology, but it seems like a shoe-horned fit into the requirements of a wireless endpoint. DECT uses a wireless radio layer that was engineered from the ground-up with the design priorities of a wireless endpoit.
I notice that the standby times of Wi-SIP vs. SIP-DECT are a great illustration of this point. I guess there's no low-power way to participate in a WiFi network, hense standby battery life that sucks in Wi-SIP. I've never actually demoed a Wi-SIP phone on premesis, but if the range of my WiFi LAPTOP vs. my DECT 6.0 headset is any indication, (DECT more than double the range) I'd guess it to be quite hard to make a case for Wi-SIP unless you're doing some straight-up network application integration right onto the phone. Can anyone speak to this? -Karl _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
