[Asterisk-Users] 3com NBX phones

[Tim Sailer]

Just found on nwfusion.com:

3Com plans to announce the 3102 Business Phone, a SIP-based handset that 
works with the vendor's VCX IP PBX, technology borrowed from 3Com's 
now-defunct carrier softswitch business.

The phone is also compatible with 3Com's small- and midsize-site NBX IP PBX. 
The phones support a G.723 wideband audio codec, which 3Com says provides 
clearer voice than previous 3Com IP phones. The phone is expected to be 
available March 19 for $310. 




Maybe they'll have the SIP NBX images out. It seems like you can buy the phones
for $35-60

Tim

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:28:52PM -0700, Derek Bruce wrote:
> The 3com NBX phones use a protocol called H3, developed by graduate students
> at MIT. The protocol has no documentation at all (except by a very P.O.ed
> guy in Australia. 3com can by the protocol when they aquired NBX corp in
> 1999. (NBX corp was the company formed by MIT to market the system).
> 
> So....
> Short answer... NO, the NBX phones can not be used by Asterisk or any other
> system...
> Long answer... There is supposed to be a beta SIP firmware for the NBX
> phones, derived from the 3com SIP phones (which were apparently very similar
> hardware). 3com disavowes any knowledge of this firmware, and their SIP
> phone have been discontinued. There are people on this list that have used
> said firmware, but they have not indicated a lot of success. 3com has
> recently (weell, over a year ago.. but that's recent in terms of 3com
> development) announced a system called the VBX (which is supposed to support
> SIP) and SIP support for the NBX, which means that there may be a sip image
> available eventually for the NBX phones. If you are looking at buying the
> phones to use with Asterisk, you would be better off buying another vendors
> product. If you already have an NBX... the landscape is going to be changing
> soon (we hope).
> 
> BTW, the NBX was supposed to be, 4 years ago, what Asterisk is today... Open
> Source, expandable and extensible. We did our research and asked our
> questions and purchased the system. spent $14000 Canadian. It still sells
> for about the same price. We even joined their Solutions Provider Program...
> what we got was a system that will do what we want... but will cost us
> another $10000 CDN.
> 
> So... cheers to Mark for starting, and continuing, a system that is all, and
> much more, that the NBX wanted to, be but couldn't...
> 
> My appologies to all who feel this is off topic...
> 
> Derek Bruce
> Calgary Telecom
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Sailer" <tps at buoy.com>
> To: "Asterisk Users" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:38 PM
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] 3com NBX phones
> 
> 
> > Does anyone know if the 3Com NBX 2102 series phones with with * ? There
> > are a crapload (a very precise measurement) on eBay, but I can't figure
> > out what protocols they talk.
> >
> > Tim
> >
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