Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
Also known as DECT, Digital European Cordless Telecommunications
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) is a cordless telephony standard maintained by ETSI. It originated in Europe, where it is the common standard, replacing earlier standards, such as CT1 and CT2. Since the DECT-2020 standard it also includes IoT communication.
Key facts
- Technology standard.title
- DECT
- Technology standard.long_name
- Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications
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- File:Радиотелефон.jpg
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- Gigaset A165 phone with base station. In DECT terminology, the phone is the 'portable part' (PP) and the base station the 'fixed part' (FP).
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- DECT
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- ETSI, DECT Forum
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- CT2
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- Cordless telephony
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21 sectionsContents
- Standards history
- Application
- Characteristics
- Technical properties
- Physical layer
- Data link control layer
- Network layer
- Security
- Profiles
- Additional specifications
- DECT 6.0
- NG-DECT/CAT-iq
- DECT-2020
- DECT for data networks
- Health and safety
- See also
- References
- Footnotes
- Standards
- Further reading
- External links
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) is a cordless telephony standard maintained by ETSI. It originated in Europe, where it is the common standard, replacing earlier standards, such as CT1 and CT2. Since the DECT-2020 standard it also includes IoT communication.
Beyond Europe, it has been adopted by Australia and most countries in Asia and South America. North American adoption was delayed by United States radio-frequency regulations. This forced development of a variation of DECT called DECT 6.0, using a slightly different frequency range, which makes these units incompatible with systems intended for use in other areas, even from the same manufacturer. DECT has almost completely replaced other standards in most countries where it is used, with the exception of North America.