Matthew Mackes (Webmail)
2006-Nov-01 21:26 UTC
[asterisk-users] My Phone Review- Large Scale Corp Deployment.
I have had the opportunity to test many IP phones in the last 6 months and I thought you might enjoy a quick review of what I have found. Grandstream Budgtone 200 - Poor Quality for business use- Looks good, and the handset feels nice, buttons have a decent feel, but the disply is difficult to read when you are not directly over head of the phone, plus the sound quality of the handset, and speaker phone is very poor--- Its has a cave, tunnel sound. Cisco 7960- Great Units, Sound Great, Look Great, very professional. They are abit more difficult to program then others. You must find the SIP firmware, and be very familiar with TFTP to deploy these phones- However once you get a hand of them, they are a rock. Zulty WIP 2- THESE PHONES ARE AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!! WiFi SIP phones- They look like an early 90's wireless phone, but they are VERY well built, and work extremely well- If you are looking for a serious WIFI SIP phone, this is the unit for you. Trust me, I tested 3 of the other popular WIFI sip phones, and they are cheaply made- even the Linksys- other WiFI phones are built like cheap plastic cell phones. We have purchaced over 125 Zulty WIP 2's and they are great. A company named Neobits has them for sale. And the best hard phone- The Aastra 480i. This phone is a class act. I would even pick this over a Cisco 7960. It has many features, feels great, has a very cool look, and the sound quality is OUTSTANDING. They have great documentation, and can do more then the Cisco, like Busy Lamp, which is very important in a large corp environment when you have receptionists. We have chosen to go with 350 Aastra 480i, 125 Zulty WIP2, and Asterisk to replace our 15 year old monster Meridian Nortel switch and phones. Asterisk will be running on Pound Key Linux, on three HP Servers- All DualCore Xeons, Dual Processor machines, (so four cores per machine) with 4 GB of RAM per. We will also be connecting the machines with Gbit Ethernet to one another on a private Switch, separated from the rest of the LAN/WAN. We will be handling Voice PRI's and 2 T1s for outbound PSTN, and long distance, and I have planned for about 100 extensions to be active at any one time (1/3) If anyone would like to discuss large scale deployments- I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks Everyone, Matt Mackes matthewmackes@deltasoniccarwash.com
Eddie Johnson Jr
2006-Nov-01 21:53 UTC
[asterisk-users] My Phone Review- Large Scale Corp Deployment.
Hello Matthew, Did you test Snom or Sipura hard ip phones? I was considering Budgetone for an office of 10 users. After reading your testimonial I will have to re-think my selection. I do wish to continue having dialogue about this very issue. Ed Sent from my BlackBerry? wireless handheld -----Original Message----- From: "Matthew Mackes (Webmail)" <mm@webmail.deltasoniccarwash.com> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:26:31 To:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] My Phone Review- Large Scale Corp Deployment. I have had the opportunity to test many IP phones in the last 6 months and I thought you might enjoy a quick review of what I have found. Grandstream Budgtone 200 - Poor Quality for business use- Looks good, and the handset feels nice, buttons have a decent feel, but the disply is difficult to read when you are not directly over head of the phone, plus the sound quality of the handset, and speaker phone is very poor--- Its has a cave, tunnel sound. Cisco 7960- Great Units, Sound Great, Look Great, very professional. They are abit more difficult to program then others. You must find the SIP firmware, and be very familiar with TFTP to deploy these phones- However once you get a hand of them, they are a rock. Zulty WIP 2- THESE PHONES ARE AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!! WiFi SIP phones- They look like an early 90's wireless phone, but they are VERY well built, and work extremely well- If you are looking for a serious WIFI SIP phone, this is the unit for you. Trust me, I tested 3 of the other popular WIFI sip phones, and they are cheaply made- even the Linksys- other WiFI phones are built like cheap plastic cell phones. We have purchaced over 125 Zulty WIP 2's and they are great. A company named Neobits has them for sale. And the best hard phone- The Aastra 480i. This phone is a class act. I would even pick this over a Cisco 7960. It has many features, feels great, has a very cool look, and the sound quality is OUTSTANDING. They have great documentation, and can do more then the Cisco, like Busy Lamp, which is very important in a large corp environment when you have receptionists. We have chosen to go with 350 Aastra 480i, 125 Zulty WIP2, and Asterisk to replace our 15 year old monster Meridian Nortel switch and phones. Asterisk will be running on Pound Key Linux, on three HP Servers- All DualCore Xeons, Dual Processor machines, (so four cores per machine) with 4 GB of RAM per. We will also be connecting the machines with Gbit Ethernet to one another on a private Switch, separated from the rest of the LAN/WAN. We will be handling Voice PRI's and 2 T1s for outbound PSTN, and long distance, and I have planned for about 100 extensions to be active at any one time (1/3) If anyone would like to discuss large scale deployments- I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks Everyone, Matt Mackes matthewmackes@deltasoniccarwash.com _______________________________________________ --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
Steve Edwards
2006-Nov-01 22:27 UTC
[asterisk-users] My Phone Review- Large Scale Corp Deployment.
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Matthew Mackes (Webmail) wrote:> Asterisk will be running on Pound Key Linux, on three HP Servers- All > DualCore Xeons, Dual Processor machines, (so four cores per machine) with 4 > GB of RAM per. We will also be connecting the machines with Gbit Ethernet to > one another on a private Switch, separated from the rest of the LAN/WAN.I'm running CentOS 4.4, Asterisk 1.2.13 on HP DL380's. My application is mostly meetme conferences being created and closed all day long. Peak load is around 200 SIP calls. I was crashing 7 to 10 times a day until I booted a non-SMP kernel. I haven't had a crash since. Meetme does not play well with SMP. Thanks in advance, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Edwards sedwards@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000
Matthias Fechner
2006-Nov-02 03:07 UTC
[asterisk-users] My Phone Review- Large Scale Corp Deployment.
Hi Matthew, Matthew Mackes (Webmail) schrieb:> Zulty WIP 2- THESE PHONES ARE AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!! WiFi SIP phones-is it possible to provide a phonebook to this phones (via LDAP, TFTP, XML-file or anything else)? Best regards, Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook
Vitalie Apostu
2006-Nov-02 17:33 UTC
[asterisk-users] My Phone Review- Large Scale Corp Deployment.
Matt, Thanks for posting this message. What version of Asterisk do you use? What kind of T1 card do you use on asterisk? -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Mackes (Webmail) Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:27 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] My Phone Review- Large Scale Corp Deployment. I have had the opportunity to test many IP phones in the last 6 months and I thought you might enjoy a quick review of what I have found. Grandstream Budgtone 200 - Poor Quality for business use- Looks good, and the handset feels nice, buttons have a decent feel, but the disply is difficult to read when you are not directly over head of the phone, plus the sound quality of the handset, and speaker phone is very poor--- Its has a cave, tunnel sound. Cisco 7960- Great Units, Sound Great, Look Great, very professional. They are abit more difficult to program then others. You must find the SIP firmware, and be very familiar with TFTP to deploy these phones- However once you get a hand of them, they are a rock. Zulty WIP 2- THESE PHONES ARE AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!! WiFi SIP phones- They look like an early 90's wireless phone, but they are VERY well built, and work extremely well- If you are looking for a serious WIFI SIP phone, this is the unit for you. Trust me, I tested 3 of the other popular WIFI sip phones, and they are cheaply made- even the Linksys- other WiFI phones are built like cheap plastic cell phones. We have purchaced over 125 Zulty WIP 2's and they are great. A company named Neobits has them for sale. And the best hard phone- The Aastra 480i. This phone is a class act. I would even pick this over a Cisco 7960. It has many features, feels great, has a very cool look, and the sound quality is OUTSTANDING. They have great documentation, and can do more then the Cisco, like Busy Lamp, which is very important in a large corp environment when you have receptionists. We have chosen to go with 350 Aastra 480i, 125 Zulty WIP2, and Asterisk to replace our 15 year old monster Meridian Nortel switch and phones. Asterisk will be running on Pound Key Linux, on three HP Servers- All DualCore Xeons, Dual Processor machines, (so four cores per machine) with 4 GB of RAM per. We will also be connecting the machines with Gbit Ethernet to one another on a private Switch, separated from the rest of the LAN/WAN. We will be handling Voice PRI's and 2 T1s for outbound PSTN, and long distance, and I have planned for about 100 extensions to be active at any one time (1/3) If anyone would like to discuss large scale deployments- I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks Everyone, Matt Mackes matthewmackes@deltasoniccarwash.com _______________________________________________ --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