I think one of the differences is: We do pay attention to Asterisk and this mailing list ;-) CS -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] Im Auftrag von Joao Pereira Gesendet: Dienstag, 31. Oktober 2006 13:47 An: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Betreff: [asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones? Hello I need to buy IP Phones to work with Asterisk, and I'm in doubt between Snom and Cisco Phones. Can you gurus, please, give me your impression of these 2 brands? I need to focus more in SIP and Asterisk compatibility and less in pricing (yes, I know the Cisco are more expensive). Are there any features that Snom has, that Cisco doesnt? And are these features important? Thanks Joao Pereira _______________________________________________ --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
That and Cisco won't give you the time of day if you don't use their stuff ;) We have about 1600 of the Cisco's on campus, and unless you run them on the call manager, you're not gonna have nearly as many features as any other phone that's designed with SIP in mind. That said, if you need a phone with dialtone, a pretty screen, and limited xml services, then I will say that the cisco's are extremely easy to provision once you figure out the upgrade paths. (Oh, and we're running 7940's and 7960's... if you're looking at the 7912's, etc, good luck, they're a _complete_ pain to work with) Aaron On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 20:41 +0100, Christian Stredicke wrote:> I think one of the differences is: We do pay attention to Asterisk and this mailing list ;-) > > CS > > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] Im Auftrag von Joao Pereira > Gesendet: Dienstag, 31. Oktober 2006 13:47 > An: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Betreff: [asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones? > > Hello > I need to buy IP Phones to work with Asterisk, and I'm in doubt between Snom and Cisco Phones. > Can you gurus, please, give me your impression of these 2 brands? I need to focus more in SIP and Asterisk compatibility and less in pricing (yes, I know the Cisco are more expensive). > Are there any features that Snom has, that Cisco doesnt? And are these features important? > Thanks > > Joao Pereira > > _______________________________________________ > --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-- Aaron Daniel Senior Voice Analyst Sam Houston State University amdtech@shsu.edu (936) 294-4198
I really wouldn't bother with the polycom's if you want to be able to program the feature keys ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Dave Schardin Sent: 03 November 2006 16:37 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: AW: [asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones? "Polycom with backite LCD (Is there any?)" The Polycom 650 has a backlit display. They wont be shipping until some time this December. On Nov 2, 2006, at 7:51 PM, Zeeshan Zakaria wrote: Cisco is out of question because as somebody already said in this thread, they come with only half of the stuff, and then they are VERY propriatery. They'll give you really hard time in configuration, firmware upgrading, support etc. I'd say CISCO are not made for open source VoIP industry. My suggestion will be one of the Snom 360, Aastra 480i, Aastra 9133i or Linksys 942, or a Polycom with backite LCD (Is there any?) _______________________________________________ --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 Looking for voice over IP products? Visit our VoIP store at http://voipstore.atacomm.com