[Asterisk-biz] Lowered Prices on Sipura SPA-2000 and SPA-1001 and more

Thu Apr 7 19:20:19 MST 2005

Francois - I think you are going to see a lot of new product offerings 
in 2005 from a variety of vendors.  I have not had the opportunity to 
play with the GXP-2000 too much yet, availability is still an issue.  I 
am certain Grandstream is doing everything than can in terms of 
production, we have a mountain of these pre-sold, we begain marketing 
the unit for Grandstream months ago, we did not anticipate the supply 
problems, nor did Grandstream I assume.  We are getting a small 
allotment of them weekly and are fulfilling backorders in chronological 
order.

For what it is, the GXP-2000 is a good value.  I think they had an 
obvious target in mind in terms of MSRP and did their best to offer the 
best feature set they could at that price point. 

The Sipura 841 I would consider mainly for residential or small/home 
office use.  Again, we're dealing with a sub $100 unit here.  For what 
it is, the SPA-841 is also an excellent value considering the other 
players on the field.  There have been a few issues with the unit that 
have been thoroughly documented on this listserv.  Sipura is proactively 
addressing these issues as well.  This is far and away the most popular, 
sub $100 IP phone that we sell.

Some other units that are value priced that you may want to evaluate 
include.

ArtDio IPF-2000 - 
http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?cPath=95_105&products_id=262

ArtDio IPF-3000 -
http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?cPath=95_106&products_id=279

and of course the Polycom SoundPoint IP300 and IP500, these seem to be 
the best Cisco alternative at a low price point, for commercial 
environments or call center applications.  The Aastra 480i is also a 
very nice phone, but you're getting what you're paying for it is a bit 
more expensive.

One other thing worth mentioning, I am not saying it is going to happen, 
but I would not be surprised in the least to see some Linkys branded, 
Cisco developed IP phones coming down the pipe.  With the success of the 
Linksys PAP2-NA, I would have to believe the R&D folks at Linksys have a 
mind to bring some phones to market as well.  That could be 
interesting.  I recently met with some folks from Linksys and I asked 
them about that possibility, but I don't have any more information to 
offer on the subject at present. 

There are also a wide variety of very nice traditional analog phones 
that can be bundled with an ATA to IP enable them.  I have an Aastra 392 
sitting on my desk right here next to meet, it is a terrific phone.  It 
is tied into a Linksys WRT54GP2-NA wireless broadband/voip router, which 
is in turn registered with our Asterisk production server that serves 
our office.  I also have a nice little WIFI VOIP phone I keep in my 
livingroom which is also connected through the wireless, the phone is 
based on a Broadcom spec, although the model I have does not support 
STUN or NAT, so it is a little limited there.  Works well other than that.

I'm off topic now, I will strive to share any information on upcoming 
vendor releases whenever I get it.  For now, the most recent ones are

Zultys has several new variations of the ZIP2 phone coming to market 
shortly.

Uniden has a pretty cool looking new offering called the UIP1868m which 
is a 5.8GHz Digital VoIP Telephone with a base station you can add 
wireless handsets to.

Broadcom has a new WIFI phone reference design, if someone does not have 
them OEM an offering with this soon perhaps we will do it!  
http://www.broadcom.com/collateral/pb/91160-PB01-R.pdf

Cory Andrews
Senior Partner
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VOIPSupply.com
A Subsidiary of b2 Technologies
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voice - 800.398.VOIP X22
fax - 716.630.1548
email - Cory at VOIPSupply.com

Francois Menard (Mailing List Account) wrote:

>
> Cory,
>
> Do you expect some competition from other IP phone vendors at the 
> price point Grandstream is hitting with the GXP2000.
>
> I've received one of the first units, and it doesn't have a lot of 
> what I would expect to receive in the firmware.  Namely, there is no 
> mean to drive the screen using XML for the moment. Codec is only G.711.
> There is no support for protocols such as 802.1ad or Cisco CDP, which 
> are essential to push VLANs or do layer 2 network discovery.
>
> I hope to see a good alternative to Cisco 7912G's available at price 
> points that are financially within reach "of the rest of us" that have 
> not been able to justify VoIP enterprise deployments at 400$ a seat.
>
> On another note, you will appreciate that Bell Canada has lauched its 
> residential VoIP service using SPA2000's. So I'm sure the VCD player 
> chipset that Sipura is using is contributing to their ability to hit 
> price points that I would only dare to think that Grandstream is 
> capable of matching with the Handytones, though I doubt that the SIP 
> stack of Grandstream in the handytones is as good as the one of Sipura.
>
> What do you think of the Sipura 841, I think that the lack of VLAN 
> support for this phone excludes it from enterprise deployments...
>
> Is there anything I should know about the evolving state of VoIP 
> endoints in the enterprise.  I'm about to be involved in a series of 
> Bids which I would like to see not totally go Cisco or Nortel.
>
>
> -=Francois=-
>
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Cory Andrews wrote:
>
>> VOIPSupply.com has recently lowered prices on some of our popular 
>> products.
>>
>> Sipura SPA-2000 is now available at $64.95 in single quantities
>> Sipura SPA-1001 is now available at $59.95 in single quantities
>>
>> Also, Linksys has announced a $5/per unit price increase for all 
>> distributors on the popular PAP2-NA adapter.  We have a large 
>> inventory of these stocked prior to the price increase on March 28, 
>> 05, and have them available at $54.95/ea for approved service 
>> providers.  Take advantage, our current price on these will 
>> inevitably go up once our current stock is depleted.
>>
>> We are also offering agressive pricing on Audiocodes, Mediatrix and 
>> Vegastream Analog and Digital VOIP Gateways.
>>
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> New Product Notes/Announcements
>>
>> Note to fans of the Digium IAXy - There is a new version of the IAXy 
>> which will soon be released.  We are not certain if any technical 
>> enhancements have been made to the product, but I have been told 
>> there is a new form factor for the device which may help with the 
>> heat dissipation issues that have been mentioned on the forums.  We 
>> anticipate there may be a lag in supply on the IAXy as the changeover 
>> to the new device occurs.
>>
>> Snom 360 Phone began shipping today
>>
>> Grandstream GXP-2000 Phone availability is still limited.  We are 
>> filling backorders in chronological order, and Grandstream is 
>> shipping us a limited allotment each week.
>>
>> Grandstream HandyTone 488's are now available, although supplies are 
>> somewhat limited.
>>
>> Zultys is bringing several new variations of the Zip2 IP phone to 
>> market in the coming weeks.
>>
>> After a few weeks of little to no availability, the Hitachi-Cable 
>> Wireless-IP-5000 phone is once again available.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cory Andrews
>> Senior Partner
>> +++++++++++
>> VOIPSupply.com
>> A Subsidiary of b2 Technologies
>> +++++++++++
>> voice - 800.398.VOIP X22
>> fax - 716.630.1548
>> email - Cory at VOIPSupply.com
>>
>>
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