First of all,
Andrew -- you are VERY WELCOME! I suspect our audience would have been
more than double had the training taken place after regular business hours.
Added to this, you guys made me look good because ALL of you on the training
list showed up. This was equally important to me, as was the technical
sessions with Francisco, Aastra's engineer -- since it established all
attendees as credible and interested folks in this new technology.
The Bluetooth concept is amazing, and I think with enough people "wanting"
it -- I am 100% sure they will introduce it. Us VOIP consultants are in a
position to make this happen, and our feedback is worth its weight in gold
to the manufacturers.
I want to comment more on this -- but as soon as I had some rest. As
mentioned on my previous post, for me the last couple of days, probably few
days... has been pretty demanding and tiring. Now my family demands my
time and attention for the weekend, and maybe I might sneak back to my PC
sooner than later, to start responding to the two topics once again.
Much too many exciting things happening in the telecom & voip world, and
sometimes I wish I had just a little bit more time to investigate everything
fun and interesting.
Cheers!
Reza.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Kohlsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 6:11 PM
Subject: [on-asterisk] Aastra SIP-DECT, and a rant about lack of Bluetooth
in general
First of all,
THANK YOU REZA FOR EXTENDING THIS INVITATION TO TAUG MEMBERS!!
I generally don't like to "waste my time" with seminars and training in
general, but this particular one was short, informative and timely. The
presenters were technical and sociable, and could present their
information
to a mixed audience. As many of you know, I have been searching for that
ideal wireless solution for some time now, and was just setting my sights
on
DECT.
This product looks great, both from a technical standpoint and from an
aesthetic standpoint. There are some "one point oh" shortcomings but
certainly nothing they have shown looks to be a dealbreaker; I don't think
there are any real design issues in this product at all, and those who
know
me KNOW how hard I am on product designers. :-)
I've also been evaluating Polycom's branding of the KIRK DECT solution,
but it
seems that that's just more aimed toward a POTS interface, which has
SERIOUS
shortcomings in terms of integration. (They have IP connectivity too,
does
anyone have any experiences with it?) Unfortunately, with the exception
of
the 5020, they all look like bars of soap. :-(
I've still got this BIG requirement for bluetooth connectivity, and upon
hearing that DECT phones should interoperate, I set out to see if ANY DECT
phone (EU or US DECT) had it... and I am totally, completely and utterly
flabbergasted.
I am so much so that I am seriously looking at contacting an OEM and
looking
at modifying a design and selling my own goddamned brand of DECT and wifi
phones.
Now as you all know I'm a technical sort. I design complex electronic
hardware for a living. I also know enough to be dangerous when it comes
to
RF design and communications in general.
I know that BT and wifi share the 2.4GHz band, and that is the standard
idiotic answer I get as to why no wifi phone has BT. However I have also
taken "bare" CSR BT chipsets and integrated them into hardware so I *KNOW*
that both BT and wifi chipsets have methods for sharing the 2.4GHz radio,
LNA, PA and antenna. The second-prize excuse is that wifi and BT both
need
to physically "own" the airtime for too long to properly share the band.
This doesn't wash, either, as I have personally taken my laptop and used a
BT
headset with the 802.11b network connection and have had perfect-quality
conversations. 802.11g can only be better, as the dot-g network time
would
be significantly shorter at higher speeds.
So with both of those "technical" excuses out the window, and myself
having
personal experience doing the "impossible" with a laptop... Why aren't we
seeing this? Am I and the people around me the only ones who can see the
utility in a Bluetooth-capable wifi or DECT phone?
Help me out here guys... I know I'm about three tomatoes short of a really
thick sauce, but I'm not *that* crazy.
-A.
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