Mikel Lindsaar
2008-Dec-21 10:00 UTC
[asterisk-users] Good comparisons on cheaper VOIP phones
Hello list, I am doing some work for a non profit group. As part of this, I am going to be putting in a 30 handset Asterisk solution. We are trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, as this job includes cabling, I am looking at POE solutions. On the switch side, I am considering something like some Netgear ProSafe FS726TP 24 port switches, or maybe the equivalent Linksys SRW224MP 24 port switch. About 4 of these will run the phones and computers on the network connecting back to a gigabit switch handling the phone and other servers. On the phone side VOIP phones The price range sort of limits me to: * Aastra 9112i * Snom 300 * Polycom 320 * Cisco CP-7906G (But I believe this won't handle SIP out of the box?) Any good bad stories of the above? One thing I like about the Aastra is being able to go POE from a switch, to the Aastra, then out of the second port on the Aastra and into the PC. Regards Mikel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20081221/1cceb597/attachment.htm
Steve Wofford
2008-Dec-21 10:08 UTC
[asterisk-users] Good comparisons on cheaper VOIP phones
Linksys SPA900 Series IP phones are good and run on POE w/ the built in switch. The have both just make sure you get the ones w/ the switch inclusive. They have some cheap 1, 2, 4, 6 line phones. We have this setup w/ SRW2008MP (This is only 8 port, but have up to 48 port POE). This way you can stick w/ one vendor for your VOIP. Makes support much easier when integrating and you don?t get finger pointing. Only other phone I could really recommend is the PolyCom they seem to be decent. DO NOT get phone w/ the power brick. Steve Wofford www.uctrlit.com From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mikel Lindsaar Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 02:00 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Good comparisons on cheaper VOIP phones Hello list, I am doing some work for a non profit group. As part of this, I am going to be putting in a 30 handset Asterisk solution. We are trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, as this job includes cabling, I am looking at POE solutions. On the switch side, I am considering something like some Netgear ProSafe FS726TP 24 port switches, or maybe the equivalent Linksys SRW224MP 24 port switch. About 4 of these will run the phones and computers on the network connecting back to a gigabit switch handling the phone and other servers. On the phone side VOIP phones The price range sort of limits me to: * Aastra 9112i * Snom 300 * Polycom 320 * Cisco CP-7906G (But I believe this won't handle SIP out of the box?) Any good bad stories of the above? One thing I like about the Aastra is being able to go POE from a switch, to the Aastra, then out of the second port on the Aastra and into the PC. Regards Mikel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20081221/7f92dc5c/attachment.htm
k4rjj at bellsouth.net
2008-Dec-21 10:11 UTC
[asterisk-users] Good comparisons on cheaper VOIP phones
Anyone know if the Cisco 7940 would work? Ronny -------------- Original message from "Mikel Lindsaar" <raasdnil at gmail.com>: -------------- Hello list, I am doing some work for a non profit group. As part of this, I am going to be putting in a 30 handset Asterisk solution. We are trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, as this job includes cabling, I am looking at POE solutions. On the switch side, I am considering something like some Netgear ProSafe FS726TP 24 port switches, or maybe the equivalent Linksys SRW224MP 24 port switch. About 4 of these will run the phones and computers on the network connecting back to a gigabit switch handling the phone and other servers. On the phone side VOIP phones The price range sort of limits me to: * Aastra 9112i * Snom 300 * Polycom 320 * Cisco CP-7906G (But I believe this won't handle SIP out of the box?) Any good bad stories of the above? One thing I like about the Aastra is being able to go POE from a switch, to the Aastra, then out of the second port on the Aastra and into the PC. Regards Mikel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20081221/c7dc89e6/attachment.htm
> As part of this, I am going to be putting in a 30 handset Asterisk > solution. We are trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, as this > job includes cabling, I am looking at POE solutions. > > On the switch side, I am considering something like some Netgear ProSafe > FS726TP 24 port switches, or maybe the equivalent Linksys SRW224MP 24 port > switch. About 4 of these will run the phones and computers on the network > connecting back to a gigabit switch handling the phone and other servers. > > On the phone side VOIP phones > > The price range sort of limits me to: > > * Aastra 9112i > * Snom 300 > * Polycom 320 > * Cisco CP-7906G (But I believe this won't handle SIP out of the box?)With the exception of mass market stuff like their ATA's (which are actually all right) stay clear of anything Linksys. It's over priced, over marketed and undelivered, poorly supported crap. Too add to your owes a lot of it is very proprietary and designed to lock you in to Linksys. Some of the above could also be said about Cisco though I do have a Cisco router I am very happy with and they are the gold standard. Having said that you are not a carrier or an ISP, and you are obviously on a limited budget, so I would not use any of their VoIP stuff in your situation. The only Snom phone I ever used was a total piece of s*. Having said that some people seem to like them - I don't know why. If you can get Netcomm where you are I'd recommend their V90S phone. Over all it's a nice phone, works well, quite classy and importantly not proprietary. It does have a couple of things that need improvement on - namely that you have to set up multiple SIP accounts on the phone to support conferencing (It's conferencing button doesn't function with server based conference) and it's web based GUI doesn't work with Firefox atm. MSIE needed for Windows or Konqurer on Linux works fine. If you want these phones and you can't find them locally drop me an email. Michael
Hans Witvliet
2008-Dec-21 11:48 UTC
[asterisk-users] Good comparisons on cheaper VOIP phones
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 21:00 +1100, Mikel Lindsaar wrote:> Hello list, > > > I am doing some work for a non profit group. > > > As part of this, I am going to be putting in a 30 handset Asterisk > solution. We are trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, > as this job includes cabling, I am looking at POE solutions. > > > On the switch side, I am considering something like some Netgear > ProSafe FS726TP 24 port switches, or maybe the equivalent Linksys > SRW224MP 24 port switch. About 4 of these will run the phones and > computers on the network connecting back to a gigabit switch handling > the phone and other servers. > On the phone side VOIP phones > The price range sort of limits me to:> * Aastra 9112i > * Snom 300 > * Polycom 320 > * Cisco CP-7906G (But I believe this won't handle SIP out of the box?)Mentioning costs, one might be tempted to mention "grandsteam", but for some people, those have a bad reputation, although i have two of thos phone for over two years without any problem.. OTOH, why not consider the Siemens A580-IP? Recently i bought a package, containing the DECT-base-station (direct IP-interface) and two handsets, (each 6 sip-entries), two handset-chargers for about 100 Euro's. Audio-quality is good. Don't think you can buy SIP-phones any cheaper... hw
I don't know if Thomson ST2030 SIP phones are distributed where you live but those have the best feature set-price ratio. They integrate smoothly with Asterisk (one touch pickup, BLF, MWI, ...) with up to 5 simultaneous calls. Here in France, those are selected everywhere ... I would recommend them without any hesitation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20081221/a75afc6f/attachment.htm