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Wireless - Avaya IP DECT
IP-DECT, while fully supported on IP Office R8, is no longer available for new sales or upgrades.
The IP DECT solution delivers the productivity-boosting benefits of IP and wireless communications across
multiple offices in a convenient, lightweight handset. It provides businesses with a highly functional wireless
solution with the ability to scale to support large numbers of users. This system also supports users in different
offices connected via a WAN. The Avaya IP DECT solution radio fixed part (RFP) or base station connects to the
IP Office using an IP protocol based on H.323.
The Avaya IP DECT solution supports up to 120 handsets and 32 base stations. Each base station can be
powered over the LAN using the Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard. Each indoor base station can also
optionally be connected to main power via an external power adaptor. Each outdoor base station can only be
powered using PoE - no individual power supplies are available to power the outdoor IP DECT base station.
In EMEA and APAC this system supports the 3701 and 3711 handsets.
In North America, only the 3711 handset is supported.
Note: The regulatory requirements for the radio part (base station and Handset) are slightly different in the US
and Canada compared to EMEA and APAC. Therefore, while providing the same functionality, the hardware is
different in these two regions.
Each Base station has the following features:
8 simultaneous Voice and up to 12 Signaling Channels.
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Codec G.711, G.723, G.729 for base station IP trunk connection.
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Handover
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While in motion, the handset performs continuous measurements to determine which IP DECT base
station has the strongest signal. The one that can be best received is defined as the active Base
station. To prevent the handset from rapidly switching back and forth between two base stations that
are equally well received, threshold values are used. Handover between base stations occurs
seamlessly whether a call is active or not.
DECT Networking
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An IP DECT telephone can travel from one office to another which is connected over a wide area
network (WAN) link and make and take calls. In this scenario the main IP DECT controller remains at
one "headquarters" location.
Given the degree of integration available to wireless users with DECT, there are a variety of means by which
calls can be routed to wireless handsets:
DDI/DID
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Since each wireless handset is an extension on the IP Office system calls may be routed directly using
a DDI/DID number.
Transfer
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Calls may be transferred to DECT extensions by operators or other extension users and DECT
extension users may transfer callers to any other extension user.
Hunt group compatibility
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Wireless handsets may be programmed as members of groups and answer calls in the same manner
as any other extension within that group.
Group working
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Wireless handsets may be programmed as members of groups and attract calls in the same manner as
any other extension within that group. DECT handsets must NOT be configured into collective groups.
Divert destination
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Users may initiate any or all diverts from an Avaya desk phone to a wireless handset.
Twinning
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Twinning allows calls to a user main extension number to alert at both that extension and a secondary
extension. Though not restricted to DECT, this feature is aimed primarily at users who have both a
desk phone and a wireless extension. Calls from the secondary twinned extension are presented as if
from the user's main extension. Presentation of call waiting and busy is based on whether either of the
twinned extensions is in use.
IP DECT Capacities
Feature
Maximum handsets
Maximum base-stations
Total base-stations/repeaters
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