asterisk users - Dec 2010 - Siemens OpenStage phones and Asterisk

Hi,

Any recent experience to share when using OpenStage phones in SIP mode and
Asterisk ?

What about provisionning (and localization) ?
BLF ?
Audio quality ?
User acceptance ?

Cheers
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Hi!
> Any recent experience to share when using OpenStage phones in SIP mode
> and Asterisk ? 
I found these phones not to be very comfortable to use, even though they do 
look interesting and the hardware is well done. If I remember well you can run
your on JAVA
(and/or XML) applications on it - loading it the first time takes a while,
though.
> What about provisionning (and localization) ?
Provisioning is certainly a strong feature of those phones, but it is also
complex. Look at the
Asterisk solution "Gemeinschaft" if you are interested in a PBX
product that has attacked
this.  
> BLF ?
Working but limited (during my short test I think I didn't get
pickup-with-BLF-button working).
It is very well possible that with a newer firmware this was addressed. See
also:

http://wiki.siemens-
enterprise.com/index.php/Asterisk_Feature_Busy_Lamp_Field_%28BLF%29
> Audio quality ?
Good or very good.

See:
http://wiki.siemens-enterprise.com/index.php/OpenStage_and_Asterisk
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Siemens+Phones

P.S.: Last time I checked the firmware was not easily available from Siemens.

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