tep@ucsd.edu (02/09/91)
Greetings Telecom Wizards! I'm looking for a piece of equipment which probably doesn't exist, provides a service probably better provided by something else, which a senior manager wants to buy :-) We have a dozen or so technical people around the company who spend most of their time out of their official offices, working around our office complexes (computer system managers, in-house telephone people, facilities manager, etc). They would like to receive their phone calls (and make calls) wherever they are. We are looking for something between a "home" wireless telephone and a cell-phone, with voice capability (not just a pager). Someone recalls recently seeing an ad for "factory floor" wireless phones, but can't remember the magazine or issue! We would like this to tie into our PBX, so that when you dial the person's extension, you get their protable phone. (I'm not enjoying this any more than you are, believe me!) Our office "campus" covers an area about 1/2 mile square. Any recommendations? Tom Perrine (tep) Internet: tep@tots.Logicon.COM Logicon UUCP: sun!suntan!tots!tep Tactical and Training Systems Division San Diego CA "Harried: with preschoolers" GENIE: T.PERRINE +1 619 455 1330
hs1c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hector Salgado-Galicia) (02/11/91)
>We are looking for something between a "home" wireless telephone and a >cell-phone, with voice capability (not just a pager). Someone recalls >recently seeing an ad for "factory floor" wireless phones, but can't >remember the magazine or issue! We would like this to tie into our >PBX, so that when you dial the person's extension, you get their >portable phone. A wireless PBX can be the solution to your problem. Actually you would not have to buy a whole new PBX, but expand instead your actual facilities installing radio ports. Several systems based on TDMA or Spread Spectrum technologies are appearing in the market this year. For additional information, you can look at: D. Postlethwaite, "Airwaves, architecture and tomorrow's PABX", Communications International, May 1990, p. 60. C. Buckingham, "A business cordless PABX telephone system on 800 MHz based on the DECT technology", IEEE Communications Magazine, Jan. 1991, p. 105.
system@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (system administrator) (02/16/91)
tots!tots.Logicon.COM!tep@ucsd.edu writes: > We have a dozen or so technical people around the company who spend > most of their time out of their official offices, working around our > office complexes (computer system managers, in-house telephone people, > facilities manager, etc). > They would like to receive their phone calls (and make calls) wherever > they are. > We are looking for something between a "home" wireless telephone and a > cell-phone, with voice capability (not just a pager)... > Our office "campus" covers an area about 1/2 mile square. At the recent Pacific Rim Computer and Communication show held here in Vancouver, BC, the local GTE-owned telco (BCTel) had what you might be looking for, althought the range appears to fall a bit short. It is advertised as the "Digital Cordless Telephone System", and is described in a spec sheet, part of which is quoted below. As far as I know, the system comes from England. The flyer shows a flip-open hand-held unit (similar to Motorola's small cellular, but with no visible antenna). It has on its face fifteen buttons, twelve for the TT pad, and three for various functions, including a bunch of "secondary" feature commands assigned to the TT pad. "For business; At home; In Public Locations. Public/Private networks". HOW DOES IT WORK? Digital cordless technology has been designed to accomodate pedestrian mobility. This means that as you walk around throughout your day, the digital cordless phone is a perfect solution. Digital cordless service will operate use a network of private and public "base stations" -- and your own digital cordless phone handset -- to link you to the entire traditional "wired" telephone network. PRIVATE NETWORK Digital cordless phones and base stations will be purchased by companies and by individuals creating the private cordless network. In businesses and in homes, your phone will work off a compact central base station which has a range of about 100 metres. A number of digital cordless phones can be registered to a single base station... PUBLIC NETWORK The public network will take up where the private network leaves off -- to create a complete communications system for people on the go. With the public network, you will use your own digital cordless phone handset within 100 metres of public base stations supplied by a public cordless network provider. These base stations will be available in a wide variety of public locations so you can make a call from wherever you are. -------------------- They give a contact telephone number of 604-293-6810 (This is for a BCTel subsidiary operation called "BC Mobile". Call them collect! Steve Pershing, System Administrator The QUESTOR PROJECT - Free Usenet News/Internet Mail; Sci, Med, AIDS, more | Usenet: sp@questor.wimsey.bc.ca POST: 1027 Davie Street, Box 486 Phones: Voice/FAX: +1 604 682-6659 Vancouver, British Columbia Data/BBS: +1 604 681-0670 Canada V6E 4L2