On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Jonathan Disher wrote:
On Aug 26, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote:
Do you have some sort of IP connectivity between the sites? 400
yards is a
too long for copper cat5, but can be done with fibre, wireless or
free-space optics... (which I don't personally recommend!)
The current plan is wireless bridge + directional antennae. That
wasn't the problem I needed to solve.
Good luck there then... (don't use Wi-Fi - go for something more robust!)
(And if you haven't IP how are you talking to the phones between
sites?)
So what's to stop you from putting a Cisco phone into auto-answer
mode and
calling it via ths Page() application?
This is an industrial environment. I'm looking for a slightly less
expensive (and hopefully more robust) device - whether an intercom
unit + ATA or a magic black box that does everything I want and has a
power plug and an ethernet jack. Dedicating a $175 cisco phone to
this is overkill, IMO. I had given thought to this, it is a backup
plan, but again, I'd like to get something perhaps less expensive to
the function.
What about a $40 Grandstream BT200? (Or whatever they are where you are -
I can buy them for under £40 in the UK)
Or if there are going to be phones on every desk, just double them up as
intercoms... I know zilch about Ciscos, but this can be done with
Grandstreams and Snoms, so I imagine that Ciscos being a "market leader"
will have this capability as a matter of course ...
Gordon
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