[asterisk-biz] IP Phone/Hard Phone

Seysan AFShin9 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 23:49:12 CDT 2007


Wow, Thank you.

So till now I think the best candidates for a REAL WORLD Office PBX
Deployment are:
Snom
Aastra
Polycom

Can you guys be more specific on the models and good cheap/reliable sources
to buy these phones ?

Thanks to all,



On 7/17/07, Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/13/07, W. Glenn Campbell <wcampbell at netstarsolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> > Polycom (In my opinion) has the best quality.
> >
>
> Polycom have great sound quality and I would say Aastra are very close
> as well. The only problem with these two phones is their poor NAT
> support. Polycom just doesnt really have it (maybe their 2.0
> firmware... but good luck getting a copy of that. Aastra I don't know
> whats going on with them, they have a few firmware bugs which they
> have promised for a few releases would be fixed. I find this totally
> acceptable because they dont use their own SIP stack, they use
> Broadcom's CallCtrl. Maybe if they started to use the current version
> (right now on the 480i they use CallCtrl 1.4.2 and have ZERO NAT
> options).
>
> IMO best overall phone to use right now is Grandstream or Linksys SPA
> (if you can join their VAR/serviceprovider program) only problem with
> both these phones is there is no way to decline an inbound call..
>
> Never tried a SNOM but I keep on hearing good things about them.
>
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