The wireless VoIP phones used in our tests were Hitachi-Cable Wireless IPC-5000 SIP Phones connected wirelessly to a Windows 2003 Server running Brekeke's OnDO SIP Server 1.5.2.0, which provided call routing between each phone. Each phone call was configured to use the uncompressed G.711 PCM codec, and silence suppression was disabled to ensure a steady flow of packets.
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Dave Molta is a Network Computing senior technology editor. He is also assistant dean for technology at the School of Information Studies and director of the Center for Emerging Network Technologies at Syracuse University. Write to him at [email protected].
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