[cisco-voip] Wireless Phones

[Brian Meade]

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.Parker at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> > On 15 Mar 2018, at 21:00, Natambu Obleton <nobleton at 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.
>
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