Tl;dr: We’­re going to collect meta­da­ta on Eas­ter­hegg 2019 to impro­ve DECT device com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty. All collec­ted data will be dele­ted after a 4 mon­th peri­od. No Voice will be cap­tu­red.

Deut­sche Ver­si­on.

Why?

Last year, we almost com­ple­te­ly repla­ced the Pho­ne Ope­ra­ti­on Cen­ter (PoC) hard­ware and soft­ware, making it easier to use. This has given us the oppor­tu­ni­ty to pro­vi­de func­tio­n­a­li­ty that was impos­si­ble to imple­ment with our old set­up. This inclu­des self-regis­tra­ti­on of DECT pho­nes, bet­ter exten­da­bi­li­ty, self-admi­nis­tra­ti­on of exten­si­ons and call groups and the LDAP phonebook. Now we want to sol­ve ano­t­her major pro­blem from the user’s point of view. The com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty of DECT devices. DECT-GAP is a stan­dard which allows free inter­pre­ta­ti­on of some parts. As a result, the­re is a con­si­derable num­ber of devices that do indi­ca­te DECT-GAP con­for­mi­ty in their dats­he­ets, but still do not work at all or only with restric­tions on our sys­tem. Up to now, no manu­fac­tu­rer has been wil­ling to ensu­re that the devices work with our sys­tem, e.g. through firm­ware adap­t­ati­ons, even though we have made con­cre­te sug­ges­ti­ons for chan­ges that wouldn’t have cau­sed dis­ad­van­ta­ges with regard to com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty with their own base sta­ti­ons.

Con­ti­nue rea­ding “Cau­ti­on! On Eas­ter­hegg 2019 we’re going to collect meta­da­ta of all DECT devices.”