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Headsets and the path under the desk

One screen, WSS, assist, WEM on the desktop, and the desk the PDF will support.

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USB noise-canceling headsets are the recommendation. Analog is not supported. Wireless is discouraged above about ten active agents because of delay. Wired LAN is preferred. Wi-Fi is tolerated only when bandwidth holds. Satellite and cellular, including 5G, are not supported.

Agent Desktop Plus and the adapters are listed at 128 kbps for G.711, which the PDF says is the default codec. Agent Assist adds 12 kbps. CRM in the same session adds another 64 kbps in that table. A VPN adds 64 kbps. Latency to the data center should be under 150 ms one way.

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Add the rows you actually use.

Worked example

Add the budget

Sum the rows for Plus, Assist, CRM, and VPN.

  1. 128
  2. 12
  3. 64
  4. 64

You did not forget Assist.

Analog headsets are
Cellular or 5G as the agent path is
Default codec in the bandwidth section is
150 ms is
CRM's extra row in the table is

Sources and go deeper

  • Technical requirements PDF. vendor. last checked 2026-10. Fetched for this lab in October 2026. Re-read before you buy hardware or open a firewall.
  • RFC 3550, RTP. rfc. last checked 2026-10.
  • RFC 3551, RTP profile for audio and video. rfc. last checked 2026-10.
  • ITU-T G.711. standard. last checked 2026-10.
  • confirm. The iPad supervisor section says G711U and G711A are primary and that GSM or iLBC may be used but have not been tested. That sentence is about that app, not a blanket codec menu. last checked 2026-10.

Ecosystem

Glossary. Default queue: Where a Skill Transfer with no skill goes, per the community article. Skill Transfer functions

Sister technologies. Zoom Phone and Microsoft Teams. Named prebuilt connections. A local UC client is also about 320 kbps. APIs and SDKs

Config. Sum the rows for Plus, Assist, CRM, and VPN.

Troubleshooting. The office Wi-Fi died and everyone tethered. Restore wired or a Wi-Fi path that meets the table.

Cross-platform bridge. A mapping to another PBX or contact center is a teaching bridge. It is not an import button.

Future hook. The guide's cloud endpoint stays unset. Confirm before relying on a dated catalog or a case-study number.

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