Comment by wkat4242
2 years ago
Interesting, but DECT is already dead.
We've already replaced the entire DECT infrastructure for WiFi phones with MS Teams in our company. Not nearly as reliable or functional but we make do with it.
2 years ago
Interesting, but DECT is already dead.
We've already replaced the entire DECT infrastructure for WiFi phones with MS Teams in our company. Not nearly as reliable or functional but we make do with it.
How do they work in terms of reliability and user experience (including sound quality)? I never tried the kind of infrastructure you have, but my experience with wifi-based calling (we use the Jabber application from Cisco) is largely suboptimal (most calls have sound artifacts, from super-short "holes" as missing packets which are mostly inoffensive, to heavy issues like no sound for 500 ms, or artifacts due to heavy-compressing codecs).
It's pretty mediocre. But usable. DECT was much better but our company wanted to remove the avaya PBXes from all sites.
Are those WiFi phones plugged into the wall or are they cordless? I believe the advantage of DECT is that the phones consume much less power compared to WiFi which makes sense if they're on battery. Many of the IP phone vendors use DECT instead of WiFi for this reason and they sell POE DECT transcievers.
They are wireless. They're just rugged Android phones in fact.
It sounds like it's bring pivoted away from phones and towards IoT in places like factories, with a focus on being more reliable than WiFi in places where it really matters
It sounds like you did not read the article.
It's not for phones.