similar to: A little OT but need an opinion on Aastra 57i CT

Hi Folks, Looking for feedback on the cordless phones with the Aastra 480i CT handset. Is voice quality comparable to standard consumer residential 2.4GHz cordless phones in the US$30 - $50 price range, or better/worse? How about handset and speakerphone quality for the main phone? Seems like there have been various big issues with firmware in past, but is it pretty stable now? Thanks,

I just bought an Aastra 480i CT for a client who needed cordless capabilities in their office. I'm trying to set up the base station and cordless handset in my office first. I'm able to connect the phone to my Asterisk box and make outgoing calls from either the base station or the handset - to extensions within my office as well as numbers outside the network. But I can't

Are the cordless phones on the 480i CT from Aastra registered independently in Asterisk? Such that if I have 5 of the cordless phones hooked up, each one is it's own "extension?" ________________________________ This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended

Hi, Has anyone had experience with the Aastra 57i / 57i CT phones? The problem I'm having is that the phone isn't re-registering itself with the Asterisk server. As a result, the phone loses the registration with the server and is no longer able to receive incoming calls. Outgoing calls work fine. Right now, I have the following sip registration settings: sip registration period: 180

I recently tried to update my Aastra 57i to version 3.2 and ran into a problem. It won't properly register and says "contact mismatch". I added "sip contact matching: 2" to aastra.cfg, but that didn't help. When I look at the SIP trace, but I see is the Aastra sending a REGISTER and Asterisk replying with the 401. The phone then sends the REGISTER again, this time

I'm in the process of converting our current hybrid key system to Asterisk and Aastra 57i phones. One of the features that seems to be a show stopper for almost everyone in the office is the inability to see who is on the phone. Can someone point in the right direction to setup an XML app on the phone so they can press a soft-button and get a list of extensions and their statuses? I know I can

Does anyone have success in upgrading Aastra/Sayson 480i CT firmware? All I get, no matter what I've tried is "Unable to upgrade firmware". tftpd is working because the dialplan freshens, and I have aastra.cfg whatevermacaddressfile.cfg and firmware.st in /tftpboot Am I missing something stupid? Is there another way to upgrade it? Chris Coulthurst chris@shuksan.com

I need to provide a 80 people office with VOIP. I want to commit to one vendor Polycom or Aastra. Price of the phones is not a factor in the decision. The quality of the phones is the factor. Some of the features that I am evaluating on are: (arranged in order of priority) 1. Sound quality 2. complete product line with conference phone and receptionist phone (not on Aastra) 3. cordless (not on

Hi, I'm currently trying to connect an Aastra 57i to our Asterisk Server. The strange thing is, that altough I have definitely entered the correct IP address of the server, the phone doesn't even attempt to register. Here is the configuration file (local.cfg) of the phone: firmware md5: dee6e938b469e217a87138076f47fe41 boot count: 1 tone set: Germany language 1: German time server1:

I am currently testing a 57i unit. No problems configuring the phone's config via phone/web UI. We are trying to avoid using the web UI, the reason is it will take a long time typing the softkey xml applications URIs on each phone, so we chose TFTP. Tried configuring the phone via a TFTP config server, but no changes took effect. I wonder why it doesn't work with TFTP even if I was able

Sorry for being a little off topic, but I'mconsidering a few new phones for my Asterisk installation. I have a mix of Polycom 500/600s and an Aastra 480i CT. I'm considering adding a couple of Aastra 57i or 57i CT. Does anyone here have experience with the 480i CT and the newer 57i CT? I'm curious as to the real differences. Thanks, Michael Graves Sr Product Specialist Pixel Power

I am looking for pros and cons on the Intel Atom cpu. Has anybody been using these in production? I am looking at an Atom D510 (dual core 1.6GHz, 1M cache) to run maybe 25 to 30 extensions, 4 or 5 calls at once(maybe as high as 7 simultaneous calls), g729 all the way through except voicemail will be wav format for email purposes(requirement). I will be tying 3 of these together to route

I have read the user reports on the Aastra 480i SIP phones, but the last report is from October, and the advice was to stay away from these units. I was looking at the cisco 79XX series or the SPA-941's, but they don't have backlit displays. I also like POE support so I don't have to run multiple wires to the phones and makes for a neater look. I dislike the looks of the SNOM

Hi, We have a few Aastra 480ci phones and we've noticed that in order to get the phone to receive a call, qualify must be = no. Apparently the Aastras do not respond to the qualify message (or respond in a way Asterisk doesn't understand) and Asterisk thinks the phone is unreachable. However, this now prevents MWI from working properly on the phones. Does anyone know how to get MWI

I have a 536i expansion module attached to a 57i-CT. The BLF lights on the 536i will light up and work fine for a while... however after a bit they seem to loose their ability to see if someone is on a phone. They still work to dial, if I try to dial, however, they don't light up when someone makes a call, or if their phone rings. If I reboot the phone, the lights start working again

Upgraded from 16.2.14 to 1.6.2.15 on Fedora 13, with aastra 9133i and 57i. On 9133i and 57i: #<extension># works for a blind transfer. Xfer<extension>Xfer doesn't! All this worked on 1.6.2.14. Nothing useful on cli, verbose 3, DEBUG. Here extension 169 answers an outside call, and tries to transfer it to 145 using the Xfer button: -- SIP/169-0000009c answered

We are installing Aastra phones (480's and 57i's) into a fairly simple asterisk setup. Although call park & pickup work fine using xfer to 700 (to park), dial 701 (to pickup), we are unable to make the park/pickup softkey feature work on the aastra's. Although we've programmed the softkeys per the manuals, they seem to have no effect (just dead). For example, our 57i is

Hi. Does anyone have a patch or workaround for the 50 BLF limit of Aastra phones? I have a couple 57i with the 560M console and only the first 50 BLF lines get registered. I am using the latest firmware from Aastra but I read that this limit was imposed because of a memory leak. Obviously my customer is complaining about these last 10 lines not showing their status. -- Telecomunicaciones

Hi, I'm a Polycom user who have just been trying out the Aastra phones. I`ve run into a bit of an issue. I cannot configure the voicemail dialout correctly on one of the two phones I am using, even if the documentation seems to state that it should work in the same manner on both phones. I have both a 9143i and a 57i CT. I`ve set both up with provisioning from config files. Both

Quoth: OCG Technical Support <support at ocg.ca> > >Although we've programmed the softkeys per the manuals, they seem to have no >effect (just dead). For example, our 57i is setup like this: I had similar problems and ended up using the speeddial inband functionality. FWIW, my 57i's setup like so: softkey4 type: speeddial softkey4 label: "*Park" softkey4