asterisk users - Dec 2008 - Good comparisons on cheaper VOIP phones

Hello list,
I am doing some work for a non profit group.

As part of this, I am going to be putting in a 30 handset Asterisk solution.
 We are trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, as this job
includes cabling, I am looking at POE solutions.

On the switch side, I am considering something like some Netgear ProSafe
FS726TP 24 port switches, or maybe the equivalent Linksys SRW224MP 24 port
switch.  About 4 of these will run the phones and computers on the network
connecting back to a gigabit switch handling the phone and other servers.

On the phone side VOIP phones

The price range sort of limits me to:

* Aastra 9112i
* Snom 300
* Polycom 320
* Cisco CP-7906G (But I believe this won't handle SIP out of the box?)

Any good bad stories of the above?

One thing I like about the Aastra is being able to go POE from a switch, to
the Aastra, then out of the second port on the Aastra and into the PC.

Regards

Mikel
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Linksys SPA900 Series IP phones are good and run on POE w/ the built in switch.
The have both just make sure you get the ones w/ the switch inclusive. They have
some cheap 1, 2, 4, 6 line phones. We have this setup w/ SRW2008MP (This is only
8 port, but have up to 48 port POE). This way you can stick w/ one vendor for
your VOIP. Makes support much easier when integrating and you don?t get finger
pointing.

 

Only other phone I could really recommend is the PolyCom they seem to be decent.

 

DO NOT get phone w/ the power brick.

 

Steve Wofford

www.uctrlit.com

 

 

From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces
at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mikel Lindsaar
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 02:00
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-users] Good comparisons on cheaper VOIP phones

 

Hello list, 

 

I am doing some work for a non profit group.

 

As part of this, I am going to be putting in a 30 handset Asterisk solution.  We
are trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, as this job includes
cabling, I am looking at POE solutions.

 

On the switch side, I am considering something like some Netgear ProSafe FS726TP
24 port switches, or maybe the equivalent Linksys SRW224MP 24 port switch. 
About 4 of these will run the phones and computers on the network connecting
back to a gigabit switch handling the phone and other servers.

 

On the phone side VOIP phones

 

The price range sort of limits me to:

 

* Aastra 9112i

* Snom 300

* Polycom 320

* Cisco CP-7906G (But I believe this won't handle SIP out of the box?)

 

Any good bad stories of the above?

 

One thing I like about the Aastra is being able to go POE from a switch, to the
Aastra, then out of the second port on the Aastra and into the PC.

 

Regards

 

Mikel

 

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Anyone know if the Cisco 7940 would work?
Ronny

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Hello list,


I am doing some work for a non profit group.


As part of this, I am going to be putting in a 30 handset Asterisk solution.  We
are trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, as this job includes
cabling, I am looking at POE solutions.


On the switch side, I am considering something like some Netgear ProSafe FS726TP
24 port switches, or maybe the equivalent Linksys SRW224MP 24 port switch. 
About 4 of these will run the phones and computers on the network connecting
back to a gigabit switch handling the phone and other servers.


On the phone side VOIP phones


The price range sort of limits me to:


* Aastra 9112i
* Snom 300
* Polycom 320
* Cisco CP-7906G (But I believe this won't handle SIP out of the box?)


Any good bad stories of the above?


One thing I like about the Aastra is being able to go POE from a switch, to the
Aastra, then out of the second port on the Aastra and into the PC.


Regards


Mikel

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> As part of this, I am going to be putting in a 30 handset Asterisk
> solution. We are trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, as this
> job includes cabling, I am looking at POE solutions.
>
> On the switch side, I am considering something like some Netgear ProSafe
> FS726TP 24 port switches, or maybe the equivalent Linksys SRW224MP 24 port
> switch.  About 4 of these will run the phones and computers on the network
> connecting back to a gigabit switch handling the phone and other servers.
>
> On the phone side VOIP phones
>
> The price range sort of limits me to:
>
> * Aastra 9112i
> * Snom 300
> * Polycom 320
> * Cisco CP-7906G (But I believe this won't handle SIP out of the box?)
With the exception of mass market stuff like their ATA's (which are actually
all right) stay clear of anything Linksys. It's over priced, over marketed 
and undelivered, poorly supported crap. Too add to your owes a lot of it is 
very proprietary and designed to lock you in to Linksys.

Some of the above could also be said about Cisco though I do have a Cisco 
router I am very happy with and they are the gold standard. Having said that 
you are not a carrier or an ISP, and you are obviously on a limited budget, 
so I would not use any of their VoIP stuff in your situation.

The only Snom phone I ever used was a total piece of s*. Having said that some 
people seem to like them - I don't know why.

If you can get Netcomm where you are I'd recommend their V90S phone. Over
all
it's a nice phone, works well, quite classy and importantly not proprietary.
It does have a couple of things that need improvement on - namely that you 
have to set up multiple SIP accounts on the phone to support conferencing 
(It's conferencing button doesn't function with server based conference)
and
it's web based GUI doesn't work with Firefox atm. MSIE needed for
Windows or
Konqurer on Linux works fine.
If you want these phones and you can't find them locally drop me an email.

Michael

On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 21:00 +1100, Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
> Hello list, 
> 
> 
> I am doing some work for a non profit group.
> 
> 
> As part of this, I am going to be putting in a 30 handset Asterisk
> solution.  We are trying to keep the costs down as much as possible,
> as this job includes cabling, I am looking at POE solutions.
> 
> 
> On the switch side, I am considering something like some Netgear
> ProSafe FS726TP 24 port switches, or maybe the equivalent Linksys
> SRW224MP 24 port switch.  About 4 of these will run the phones and
> computers on the network connecting back to a gigabit switch handling
> the phone and other servers.
> On the phone side VOIP phones
> The price range sort of limits me to:
> * Aastra 9112i
> * Snom 300
> * Polycom 320
> * Cisco CP-7906G (But I believe this won't handle SIP out of the box?)

Mentioning costs, one might be tempted to mention "grandsteam", but
for
some people, those have a bad reputation, although i have two of thos
phone for over two years without any problem..

OTOH, why not consider the Siemens A580-IP?
Recently i bought a package, containing the DECT-base-station (direct
IP-interface) and two handsets, (each 6 sip-entries), two
handset-chargers for about 100 Euro's.
Audio-quality is good. Don't think you can buy SIP-phones any cheaper...

hw

I don't know if Thomson ST2030 SIP phones are distributed where you live but
those have the best feature set-price ratio.
They integrate smoothly with Asterisk (one touch pickup, BLF, MWI, ...) with
up to 5 simultaneous calls.

Here in France, those are selected everywhere ...

I would recommend them without any hesitation.
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