[Asterisk-Users] IP Phone that OFFICIALLY support Asterisk

[Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:58:39 -0600, Joseph <syscon at interbaun.com> wrote:
> What IP Phones officially support Asterisk.  I know that most of them
> will work with * but I do not want to support companies that don't
> support OSS

I guess it all depends on your definition of "support OSS". Does it
mean funding OSS projects? Does it mean contributing code? Does it
mean support won't hang up the phone when you mention OSS?

Some of our customers use ACT's IP phones, mainly the P104. ACT have
been very responsive dealing with all the issues we have raised, most
of them Asterisk related. They have never said anything like
"Asterisk? we don't support that". To the contrary, they have always
been very helpful to resolve any issued to make their phones work with
our customers' Asterisk servers.

In some cases they did far more than most other manufacturers would
have done and I know they did so because they want their phones to
work well with Asterisk. Also, when we told them that their web
interface doesn't work so well with Mozilla browsers, they fixed it. I
have just received a firmware update for that and we will test this
tomorrow.

I have never heard them say something like "we will have to evaluate
how much demand there is for this feature and how many of our
customers are actually interested in Asterisk/Mozilla".

I am not sure if this would qualify as "support OSS" in your view, but
I can definitely say that ACT are committed to work on their products
to make them interoperate with OSS products.
 
Their website is at http://www.act-tel.com.tw

rgds
benjk

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