Presence and IntComm WG

[Ben Teitelbaum <>]

The thought was that it might be easier to allocate a hard phone per
room than to allocate a PC.  I was hoping for something like the
"THAT-2" and you found it!  If the room audio system has RCA outputs
(many I've seen do), then the "THAT-1"
(http://www.jkaudio.com/that-1.htm) would probably do; it's only $150.

To tap directly into an Cisco ATA-186
(http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/as/180/186/) or Grandstream
ATA-286 (http://www.grandstream.com/y-product.htm), we'd need
something like the JK Inline Patch
(http://www.jkaudio.com/inline-patch.htm), which goes for $270.

Let's discuss on the next PIC call and put our order(s) in.

-- ben


 (Dennis Baron) writes:

> I thought about trying to build something for Indianapolis to connect
> the Cisco phones to the hotel PA system - but I just didn't have time.
> I did find this:
>
>     http://www.jkaudio.com/assets/pdf/THAT-2_datasheet.pdf
>
> But it was $225.
>
> If you're just going to use a PC you might check with their A/V people
> - at Indianapolis I just asked and they gave me a box similar to the
> one you found.  Seemed to work OK with my laptop - and with the Snom
> phone (they have computer style headset jacks).
>
>                         Dennis