[Asterisk-Users] Hardware IAX phone (please read and reply!)

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Sounds like a good idea..

My suggestion on looks and features would be to look at somthing like the Snom200, features like the ability to connect a standard pc type head set to the phone a great cost cutting features..

As for codecs I would look and G.711, G.729, GSM, iLBC and Speex.. That way you have covered both high and low bandwidth, closed source and open source codecs..

Look ate STUN support and possibly uPNP..

As for the rest just stick to the standards for SIP ( and IAX if you decied to impliment it)..

If the price per phone can be brought down closer to the cost of a standard analog phone then there will be no reason why VoIP will not take over the telecomunications of the world..

So I would say in the fisrt instance get a low cost, hight quality, reliable product created first and if there is a need then look at the "Delux" products.. Unfortunately the VoIP world is full of "Delux" but not enough budget products..

It seams that most only think of the global enterprise and not about the worlds SME's..

Later..

> Hello all!
> 
> I've talked recently to the head of R&D dept. of Telkom Telos 
> (www.telos.com.pl) - a big Polish company specialised in making 
> phones. I gave them the idea of creating a cheap (cost-effective) 
> hardware IP phone. The phone we discussed would include hardware 
> support for IAX (though probably SIP/sth. else would be required too 
> if it were to hit the market.. what do you think?) and GSM 06.10. 
> Although they have no previous experience in IP phones, they were 
> quite interested and promised to have a deeper look into the issue. 
> 
> So now for the big part: everybody PLEASE give your suggestions about 
> what the IP phone of your choice should look/work/... like. The main 
> reason we started the talks was the cost of currently available 
> phones (even $70+s&h is a truckload of money for a phone here in 
> Poland) but any and all suggestions are welcome.
> 
> I'd also love to hear from the more hardware-oriented people - do you 
> have any suggestions about used chips, controllers, codecs, whatever? 
> As I said, although they've been making phones for years, they 
> haven't built an IP phone before so they have to research the 
> possible elements used. Why not make it easier for them? :)
> 
> With Telos being a specialised factory, there's the benefit that e.g. 
> good-looking cases are no problem at all, and if low price wasn't the 
> goal, touchscreens and all would be an option too - maybe 
> some "deluxe" edition?
> 
> An alternative design that came up was a bigger (say, 12/24 ports) 
> gateway with some embedded Linux running on an industrial PC (as 
> beefy as circumstances require - any comments?) with plain RJ11 
> sockets on one side and Ethernet on the other. What do you think 
> about this?
> 
> Hope to hear from you (a lot! :)
> 
>  Grzegorz Nosek
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