Cisco just announced some DECT headsets so maybe they'll have the expertise to do something like this in the future. But I don't see Cisco selling a product that gets customers away from buying their wireless infrastructure.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 5:12 AM, Gary Parker <g.j.par...@lboro.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > On 15 Mar 2018, at 21:00, Natambu Obleton <noble...@fasttrackcomm.net> > wrote: > > > > What are people using for wireless phones? Any good experiences? > > Sadly only bad experience here. When we first moved to CUCM from an isdx 8 > years ago our users where generally unhappy with the lack of DECT product > from Cisco. We tried putting PSTN DECT basestations on ATAs but found those > to be very unreliable. Cisco’s wifi handsets are prohibitively expensive > and, last time we looked, had poor battery life and required per device > certificates to get on our 802.1x wifi. > > We tried out the Cisco SMB offering, the SPA232D DECT/SIP bridge and > handsets. They were able to register as “advanced SIP devices” in > callmanager but we found them to be quite unreliable, the handsets were > fragile and broke often, and Cisco eventually discontinued them. > > I’m aware of enterprise DECT/SIP gateways such as Aastra (which now > appears to have been bought by Mitel) and we looked into this, but the > initial investment to install was deemed to high for our site as user > density in any one place wouldn’t justify the cost. > > I’m now recommending users make use of remote destination with their work > mobiles. It’s a bit more management over head for me, but it’s the best > we’ve been able to offer. I keep asking Cisco for cucm compatible DECT > product but it seems they’re not interested. > > > --- > /-Gary Parker----------------------------------f--\ > | Unified Communications Service Manager | > n Loughborough University, IT Services | > | tel:+441509635635 sip:g...@lboro.ac.uk o > | https://www.osx.ninja/pubkey.txt | > \r----------------------------------------------d-/ > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-voip mailing list > cisco-voip@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip > >
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