Good Afternoon
Maybe a bit of an odd question but as I’ve alluded to in other posts I’m in the process of swapping out phones form our legacy PBX to voip handsets on a hosted could solution.
We have some phones that are wall mounted and I’ve found with some that getting a standard cat 5/6 cable into the back of the phone and getting it flush on the wall is not easy.
Would cutting an old phone cable and putting RJ45’s on it in a 10/100 pin out work?
Probably 30cm/12" or less just to get form a socket in the wall out to the handset?
Thanks
Grant
yes, you can use cat 3 (cw1308) cabling for 10/100 if the cable is direct end to end.
it is not recommended, though, and does comply with any standard you should use ca5/5a/6
you could use a multi port ata and use analogue phones for the phones that do not have the correct cabling. an alternative solution would be wifi adapters on the ip phone on a dedicated wifi network, which is not an ideal solution. with wifi, ensure you know the limitations, i.e., the number of concurrent connections,
just my opinion, though:-)