Hi all, We have a client that needs to setup about 80 desk phones (about 50 in one location and about another 30 in 5 different locations). Which brand/model would you recommend. We were personally thinking in recommending either Cisco, Aastra, Polycom, or Snom, for we've heard great things about them. However, having no real experience with them makes it hard in recommending one to our customer. The only experience we've had is a very frustrating one trying to load the IP software on a Cisco 7970G and so we assume that if we have to go through that for all 80 phones, we'll probably commit suicide :) Thanks
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2007-Oct-29 18:02 UTC
[asterisk-users] SIP phone recommendation (used to be: no subject)
My apologies to the list for not having entered a subject line in the email. Thanks On Oct 29, 2007, at 1:42 PM, lists at infoway.net wrote:> Hi all, > > We have a client that needs to setup about 80 desk phones (about 50 > in one location and about another 30 in 5 different locations). Which > brand/model would you recommend. We were personally thinking in > recommending either Cisco, Aastra, Polycom, or Snom, for we've heard > great things about them. However, having no real experience with them > makes it hard in recommending one to our customer. The only > experience we've had is a very frustrating one trying to load the IP > software on a Cisco 7970G and so we assume that if we have to go > through that for all 80 phones, we'll probably commit suicide :) > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
What is the use case? Linksys, Polycom, Snom, and Aastra all have their strengths and weaknesses. -- Eric Chamberlain, CISSP Chief Technical Officer Voxilla - http://voxilla.com/> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- > bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of lists at infoway.net > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 10:42 AM > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com > Subject: [asterisk-users] (no subject) > > Hi all, > > We have a client that needs to setup about 80 desk phones (about 50 > in one location and about another 30 in 5 different locations). Which > brand/model would you recommend. We were personally thinking in > recommending either Cisco, Aastra, Polycom, or Snom, for we've heard > great things about them. However, having no real experience with them > makes it hard in recommending one to our customer. The only > experience we've had is a very frustrating one trying to load the IP > software on a Cisco 7970G and so we assume that if we have to go > through that for all 80 phones, we'll probably commit suicide :) > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Stay away from Cisco they just don't work for the price, if it would be in the price range of a Grandstream phone I would tell you go for it, but at the current price its just not worth it. Aastra, Polycom or linksys all work for me. Never tried Snom before. On 10/29/07, lists at infoway.net <lists at infoway.net> wrote:> Hi all, > > We have a client that needs to setup about 80 desk phones (about 50 > in one location and about another 30 in 5 different locations). Which > brand/model would you recommend. We were personally thinking in > recommending either Cisco, Aastra, Polycom, or Snom, for we've heard > great things about them. However, having no real experience with them > makes it hard in recommending one to our customer. The only > experience we've had is a very frustrating one trying to load the IP > software on a Cisco 7970G and so we assume that if we have to go > through that for all 80 phones, we'll probably commit suicide :) > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
I've had experience with Linksys and Polycom. Either one is easy enough to provision. Took me a while to understand how to provision Polycom. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of lists at infoway.net Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2007 3:42 AM To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] (no subject) Hi all, We have a client that needs to setup about 80 desk phones (about 50 in one location and about another 30 in 5 different locations). Which brand/model would you recommend. We were personally thinking in recommending either Cisco, Aastra, Polycom, or Snom, for we've heard great things about them. However, having no real experience with them makes it hard in recommending one to our customer. The only experience we've had is a very frustrating one trying to load the IP software on a Cisco 7970G and so we assume that if we have to go through that for all 80 phones, we'll probably commit suicide :) Thanks _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
lists at infoway.net wrote:> Hi all, > > We have a client that needs to setup about 80 desk phones (about 50 > in one location and about another 30 in 5 different locations). Which > brand/model would you recommend. We were personally thinking in > recommending either Cisco, Aastra, Polycom, or Snom, for we've heard > great things about them. However, having no real experience with them > makes it hard in recommending one to our customer. The only > experience we've had is a very frustrating one trying to load the IP > software on a Cisco 7970G and so we assume that if we have to go > through that for all 80 phones, we'll probably commit suicide :) > > Thanks >We have used Cisco and Aastra, can't comment on Polycom or Snom. I cannot recommend Cisco, good sound quality but that's it. Ridiculously overpriced, too few usable features, incredibly awkward to manage. Aastra have good sound quality, reasonable price, configs are plain text and not to hard to work with. We have the 9133i as our basic phone and 480i in the Call Centre for the soft buttons. Both can be fed from the same config templates. We used to use Grandstream but quality and support issues have driven us away. regards, Drew -- Drew Gibson Systems Administrator OANDA Corporation www.oanda.com
Honestly, Its my opinion that the Aastra phones are very lacking in the firmware department. If they could get that sorted out I wouldn't mind using them. But for now there are too many NAT issues mostly caused because they use an OLD version of Broadcom CallCtrl. Why they use an ancient version is beyond me but the phones dont even have a NAT keepalive option. They promise updates to their firmware but then they only fix minor bugs. Grandstream are ok. But as others have said their support is very lacking. I've had products of theirs behave very oddly.... like operate and refuse to apply any settings no matter what and not allow a factory reset... paperweight. I'd personally use Polycom in the situations where there's no NAT and the Linksys SPA-phones where you do have NAT. On 10/29/07, lists at infoway.net <lists at infoway.net> wrote:> Hi all, > > We have a client that needs to setup about 80 desk phones (about 50 > in one location and about another 30 in 5 different locations). Which > brand/model would you recommend. We were personally thinking in > recommending either Cisco, Aastra, Polycom, or Snom, for we've heard > great things about them. However, having no real experience with them > makes it hard in recommending one to our customer. The only > experience we've had is a very frustrating one trying to load the IP > software on a Cisco 7970G and so we assume that if we have to go > through that for all 80 phones, we'll probably commit suicide :) > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >