Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, and they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? ---------------------------------------- Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au <http://www.jasco.net.au/> Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 ---------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070208/29be2317/attachment.htm
I know Brett and Jurgen have been pretty happy with the Snom's - Brett even wrote an auto-provision utility for the Snom's at one time. later, PaulH On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 19:45 +1100, Rod Bacon wrote:> Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to > understand/implement central provisioning? I?ve used CISCO 79XX > phones, and they?re great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream > phones, but their provisioning sucks. > > > > What is everybody else using in large environments where individual > config is not an option? > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > Rod Bacon > > > Technical Manager > > > JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. > > > http://www.jasco.net.au > > > Ph. 03 9432 6376 > > > Fax: 03 9432 6378 > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Christoph Fürstaller
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[asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm using a Thomason ST2030. Had difficulties in the beginning, but after a firmware upgrade it works fine. And autoprovisioning works good. Most of the parameters are described in their official (marked as confidential) admin documentation from their website. Even a centralized phonebook is possible. Chris... Rod Bacon schrieb:> Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to > understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, > and they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but > their provisioning sucks. > > > > What is everybody else using in large environments where individual > config is not an option? > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Rod Bacon > > Technical Manager > > JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. > > http://www.jasco.net.au <http://www.jasco.net.au/> > > Ph. 03 9432 6376 > > Fax: 03 9432 6378 > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users- -- Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Krenn - IT-Beratung Franz-Josef-Strasse 33/4/43, 5020 Salzburg Tel: +43 662 879512 Fax: +43 662 875960 IP-Tel: +43 780 kkrenn (557366) Email: c.fuerstaller@kurtkrenn.com sip: c.fuerstaller@kurtkrenn.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFyvypR0exH8dhr/YRAiS9AJ0ZSsvRAEaxxLkK6Qqdt6imLml8UwCeOpek YO65eWK78s7X6RfrC2uf6Po=6yTR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
I liked polycom a lot.
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Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to
understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, and
they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their
provisioning sucks.
What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is
not an option?
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http://www.jasco.net.au
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Best and easiest provisioning I?ve found imho is Snom, great web interfase , followed by Polycom (web interfase used to be poor and slow, but once you set it up, works very well) Dovid B escribi?:> I liked polycom a lot. > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Rod Bacon <mailto:rodb@jasco.net.au> > *To:* asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > <mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:45 AM > *Subject:* [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning > > Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to > understand/implement central provisioning? I?ve used CISCO 79XX > phones, and they?re great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream > phones, but their provisioning sucks. > > What is everybody else using in large environments where > individual config is not an option? > > ---------------------------------------- > > Rod Bacon > > Technical Manager > > JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. > > http://www.jasco.net.au <http://www.jasco.net.au/> > > Ph. 03 9432 6376 > > Fax: 03 9432 6378 > > ---------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Dovid B wrote:> I liked polycom a lot. > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Rod Bacon <mailto:rodb@jasco.net.au> > *To:* asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > <mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:45 AM > *Subject:* [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning > > Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to > understand/implement central provisioning? I?ve used CISCO 79XX > phones, and they?re great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream > phones, but their provisioning sucks. > > What is everybody else using in large environments where > individual config is not an option? >Aastra phones are pretty nice for central configuration.
great i join you Thomson ST is a good choice, also you can see linksys
for massive deployment phone provisioning/fw updating through web interface is not optimal, best way is via config files/templates periodicaly downloaded from central tftp/http server... PJ MF wrote:> Best and easiest provisioning I?ve found imho is Snom, great web > interfase , followed by Polycom (web interfase used to be poor and > slow, but once you set it up, works very well) >
I can only speak for Aastra phones. Central provisioning is very easy. All you need is one simple text file on a TFTP, FTP, or HTTP server which all the phones point to. To customize individual phones you add a second text file for each phone you want customized. The custom text file is given the name of the phones MAC address. When the phone reboots it first reads the general text file and then reads it's custom file which will overwrite any duplicate setting in the general text file. To remotely reconfigure and reboot phones you can configure them to check for updates to these files or for updated firmware at a certain time of day. You can also remotely reboot individual phones based on extension from the Asterisk CLI. Of course, you can also access an individual phones Webpage configuration based on it's IP address. _____ From: Rod Bacon [mailto:rodb@jasco.net.au] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:46 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, and they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? ---------------------------------------- Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. <http://www.jasco.net.au/> http://www.jasco.net.au Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 ---------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070208/7a2578bb/attachment.htm
MF wrote:> Best and easiest provisioning I?ve found imho is Snom, great web > interfase , followed by Polycom (web interfase used to be poor and slow, > but once you set it up, works very well)Polycoms are great if you use the cfg files over tftp. -s
Aastra are a delight -- no need for a compiler (like the Grandstream and
Linksys phones) -- and extremely well documented configuration files.
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, George Pajari wrote:> Aastra are a delight -- no need for a compiler (like the Grandstream and > Linksys phones) -- and extremely well documented configuration files.While I agree that Grandstream phones might not be the easiest things in the world, I did find this recently: http://www.pkts.ca/gsutil.shtml and initial results look very promising... Gordon