My number one recommendation is be VERY VERY Careful. You could be selling the biggest nightmare to you and the customer ever.
I have tried almost all the wifi sip phones and they are ALL sub par. Range is terrible on most, but mainly its staying connected to the ap's all the time and especially multiaccess points that causes issues. The hitachi phone I tried, the 5000, it was bad, it doesn't support wpa, that's crazy. No firmware updates in a while either so its not coming. The new one maybe does, the ae. The utstarcom one never stayed connected either. Anyways the best is what the other guy said, phones that are not wifi but integrated with sip, that might be worth looking into. I assume the hotel already has the access points that's why you are doing this? Well I can see the reason, my recommendation, do extensive testing first with the phones you are looking at, as in multi day testing to make sure the phones stay connected and get all the calls. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:27 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Recommendations for 100 Wifi SIP phone setup Hi all, Im preparing a quote for a 5 Star hotel, planning to have around 100 SIP Wifi phones for PBX operations running on 100 AccessPoints. Network is running in ARUBA Networks - AP70 access points. The initial recommendation is to go for Hitachi Wifiphones, but i would like to know from the group the recommendations. Im planning to put up Asterisk as the PBX, Please advice me the do's and donts as i'm not experienced on such heavy installation which are mission critical. I had been using asterisk on small profiles and this would be my first Pro setup with wifi handsets if all goes as planned. the Key Questions are Is Asterisk good enough? or do we need a another Proxy like SER? What is the experience with Hitachi Wifi phone's? Any specific Issues? Any such installations done? Please do a detail Looking for experiences.. Thanks Sunil Charly Manager - Business Planning KOLTELECOM _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users This E-mail, including any attachments, may be intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the sender and recipient(s) named above. This message may include advisory, consultative and/or deliberative material and, as such, would be privileged and confidential and not a public document. Pursuant to 42 CFR, any information in this e-mail identifying a former, present, or potential client of Straight & Narrow is confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error, you must not review, transmit, convert to hard copy, copy, use or disseminate this e-mail or any attachments to it and you must delete this message. You are requested to notify the sender by return e-mail. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users