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| Click here to select a new forum. | | PowerBop part II | Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2014-09-16 03:11:21
I'm sure with a bit of hacking of a DECT cordless base station you could do something.
As for terminals, I like the DEC vt-series.
| Posted by: galgot on 2014-09-16 04:06:22
Indeed,
From the Bibop Wikipedia french page (translated) :
"One of the business benefits of Bi-Bop was excellent call quality, since the radio link with the terminal is based on the CT2 standard, the audio link is coded identically to that used by the DECT cordless phones home (ADPCM 32 kbit / s)."
and on the CT2 standard wikipedia page :
"..Unlike DECT, CT2 was a voice-only system, though like any minimally-compressed voice system, users could deploy analog modems to transfer data. In the early nineties,Apple Computer sold a CT2 modem called the PowerBop to make use of France's Bibop CT2 network. Although CT2 is a microcellular system, fully capable of supportinghandoff, unlike DECT it does not support "forward handoff", meaning that it has to drop its former radio link before establishing the subsequent one, leading to a sub-second dropout in the call during the handover."
| Posted by: Dandu on 2014-09-20 09:47:20
The best way is to found a CT2 base station.
In France, it's uncommon but possible (i have found 3 base to test, one is broken, but the two other working).
There is many CT2 Network, i think it works with rabbit base station (UK) and the hardware from Hong Kong.
And i have seen that many old DECT phone are also compatible with CT2 (and BiBop french phone).
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