On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Benny Amorsen wrote: > "Michael Graves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> DECT was designed from the start to handle voice and data. > > 553kbps isn't particularly useful today. Even 3G is faster.
Actually, 553Kbps is more than enough for a lot of things - eg. telemetry transfer from hand-hend terminals over an area that a normal wired LAN might cover - like a shop floor.. And hang on - my first broadband connection was 512Kb/s .... So I think we need to have a bit of perspective here.. And double hang on ... What do all those hand-held Chip & Pin terminals use? And in the co-op yesterday, they were trialling a new system of checking out people while in the queue with a hand-held scanner & printer - that's obviously doing data transfers back to the shops main server... So I think there are plenty of applications that will benefit from that sort of data transfer speeds - maybe "modern" developers are just too co-erced into Wi-Fi by simply not knowing about it? > 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. Yes. Shame. 802.11 is just too "general purpose"... Gordon _______________________________________________ -- 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
