Hello List, After seeing a few positive responses for the Linksys SPA-942 phones I was hoping to get some answers on the following questions: * How do the phones handling system wide paging? Is it similar to the Polycom phones? * Can a corporate directory be configured with the phones using Asterisk? * How is the speaker phone quality? Thanks Roy Anciso Director of Technology Manistee Intermediate School District 772 East Parkdale Avenue Manistee, MI 49660 Ph: 231-723-4264 Fx: 231-398-3036 roy at manistee.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080222/a342ee4d/attachment.htm
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Anciso, Roy <roy at manistee.org> wrote:> > > > Hello List, > > After seeing a few positive responses for the Linksys SPA-942 phones I was > hoping to get some answers on the following questions: > > ? How do the phones handling system wide paging? Is it similar to the > Polycom phones?Yes it's quite similar, just be aware that unlike the Polycoms, if you page a phone (auto answer header) that is in a conversation the SPAs will put the current call on hold and take the auto answered phone, therefore before paging an SPA make sure to use app_chanisavail first.> ? Can a corporate directory be configured with the phones using > Asterisk?Don't know, I never tried it, but IIRC the web page to the SPA configs has a tab for that.> ? How is the speaker phone quality?For the price it's great, but it's not the best, in my opinion it's acceptable quality. It's not as good as the Cisco which is worst than the Polycoms. I would say it's around as good as the Aastras> > Thanks > > Roy Anciso > > Director of Technology > > Manistee Intermediate School District > > 772 East Parkdale Avenue > > Manistee, MI 49660 > > Ph: 231-723-4264 > > Fx: 231-398-3036 > > roy at manistee.org > > > _______________________________________________ > -- 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 >
> * How do the phones handling system wide paging? Is it similar to the > Polycom phones?No idea I'm afraid, none of our clients use paging functionality.> * Can a corporate directory be configured with the phones using Asterisk?Yes and no. You can set up a directory on a per-phone basis through the web interface, but it isn't overwritten by a provisioning config. You can fudge the issue some with curl and a php (or insert choice of preferred scripting language) script.> * How is the speaker phone quality?Excellent. Noticably better than either the Snom 370 or Snom 300 that also populate my desk. Polycoms are a bit harder to come by here in the UK, so I haven't had much experience with them and can't do a direct comparison, but definitely much better than the speakerphones in the Snom units. I would say on a par with the Cisco 7960 (which also graces my desk). Regards, Chris -- C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited For full contact details visit http://www.minotaur.it This email is made from 100% recycled electrons