[cisco-voip] DECT phones

Sun Sep 5 12:53:57 EDT 2010

Hi Ratko,

it depends a lot on your coverage requirements, as well as on the number of endpoints you need to support.

If it's more than a few phones and more then what could be covered by a couple base stations, the price of Polycom (ex-KIRK) DECT systems becomes quite competitive. (ie. covering large areas with "traditional" systems isn't exactly cheap eiteher).

Nominal coverage area for DECT systems is around 30-50m indoors and 100-300m outdoors, if I recall correctly, but this rarely translates well in reality as it depend heavily on the environment. Anyway, usually, the coverage is much better than that of standard 802.11 wireless and it should be determined by a site survey before a purchase decision is made. 

There are several configurations for KIRK systems:
600v3 - this is an all-around system, as it can work in 
single cell mode: one active "server" and up to 6 repeaters - only the server needs ethernet connection, the repeaters only need wireless signal and AC power
or multi-cell mode, where more 600v3 units can cover a larger area, or you can build coverage islands (this is one killer feature, a "traditional" system might not be able to counter, especially if you can use existing ethernet cabling to add new "islands" to the network). 
Unless you have a very large system, all "Kirk Wireless servers" act as base stations (will have active radios in them)
600v3 can do SCCP as well (phones will appear as  Cisco7940 on the CallManager)
Each 600v3 base station can support up to 12 simultaneous voice channels (this is a LOT more than most "traditional" systems will do - that are more close to 4 or the like).

the 6000 is a newer system, where you'll always need a "server", that, although comes in a wall-mountable box like the 600v3 has no radio in it. You can add "base stations" to it, that are the same size as repeaters (10x10cm, if I recall correcty) but are PoE powered and connect to the Ethernet network.
Wile it's been a while I've worked with them, but I think above 4-5 base stations the 6000 system starts to be cheaper than the 600v3 (with the same number of BS-s).
The 6000 is SIP only. Also it has an even larger scalability than the 600v3, although channels per base station is somewhat lower.

In Multicell 600v3, or 6000 systems, each base station can support up to 3 repeaters.

Also: You can connect almost any DECT handset to both Polycom Kirk systems. Any handsets that you can choose which base station to connect to (on some DECTs designed for home use only this isn't possible I believe, as they are hardcoded for their own base station).

Regards,
  Zoltan Kelemen

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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net on behalf of Ratko Dodevski
Sent: Sun 9/5/2010 5:37 AM
To: Philip Walenta
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] DECT phones

Thanks for your replay, as I understand, I need KIRK wireless server,
wireless base station, several repeaters and the number of phones...
Is't this to much? What is the coverage of a station? I know the
phones a pretty expensive too.

Regards
Ratko

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Philip Walenta <pwalenta at wi.rr.com> wrote:
> If this is the US or EMEA Polycom (the company for which I work so yes you
> could consider this a plug) has DECT handsets with a basestation that
> integrates directly into CUCM.  You can get SIP phones or a base that does
> SCCP as well.  Check out the Kirk wireless server 600v3 for SCCP, or the 300
> or 6000 for SIP.
>
> I use the SCCP model for my home connected to a CUCME without issue.
>
> All handsets are valid.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ratko Dodevski
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 8:39 AM
> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [cisco-voip] DECT phones
>
> Hi guys,
> I have this customer (a shopping mall) that requires several mobile
> phones. Because there is no wireless coverage in place and there is no
> interest in doing this (especial not in the parking floors), I'm
> looking into some DECT phones with additional  antennas acting as a
> repeaters. Does anyone has any experience in this and some
> recommendations? The phones need to register on Call Manager 7, so I
> was thinking of using Cisco SPA (or ATA) to convert the analog to IP
> signal. Any thoughts?
>
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