Re: [BAWUG] Low cost solution for integrating a phone extension over a wireless bridge

[Jacques Caron]

Use VoIP on your PC, and a VoIP gateway at the other end. Not sure it will be cheap, but gives you quite a bit of flexibility... Alternatively, you can use a VoIP phone, but those are expensive bastards for now.

Note that there are even some wireless VoIP phones (i.e. Voice over IP over WLAN), see Spectralink for instance.

Jacques.

At 20:59 11/10/2002, John O'Hare wrote:

Hi,
  I was just wondering if anybody has any additional suggestions for
integrating a regular analog phone extension over a 802.11b wireless link
(or wired LAN).

                     Point A                            Point B
                         ---                       ---
        PBX        -------|   |                     |   |-------- Phone
      Ethernet   -------|   |     // 2.4Ghz \\    |   |-------- Ethernet
[PC]
                         ---                       ---

One solution is to use standard Access Points for the wireless bridge and
use a Multi-Tech Analog Gateway (and switch) at each end to bridge the phone
extension. However, would be very interested to know if there may be a
cheaper approach (other than using a long range cordless phone)

Thanks,
  John.


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