[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7905G

[Michael Loftis]

I'm pretty sure SMARTnet on the VoIP phones is like $8/phone/year....Most 
orgs spend more than that per person on electricity for CRTs.

--On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 15:25 -0700 "Wiley E. Siler" 
<wsiler at e2020inc.com> wrote:

> See my post of a few moments ago and you have hit on the exact reason I
> will not use Cisco beyond my firewall (a purchase you will never regret
> if you need a good firewall).  Cisco makes arguably some of (if not
> totally) the best equipment out there. I just have one problem.
>
> Their licensing model is such that you can buy their product, at a
> premium price too mind you, ant then you have to pay MUCH extra for a
> support contract just to get images and just about everything else you
> need.  That lead me to alternatives.  Polycom, SNOM, Grandstream are
> just a few and each good based upon certain criteria (price vs. looks
> vs. performance, etc, etc).
>
> My personal choice is Polycom.  Polycom IP300 phones are excellent if
> you do not need speaker phone.  IP500 is excellent with all the features
> you may want.  Go to the IP600 and you get a minibrowser though the
> benefit is arguable.  My IP500s perform extremely well and the
> featureset is excellent.
>
> As before, phone choice is very preferential and what I like may be
> totally hated by someone else.  However, in my opinion, the
> dollar/performance/presentation ration of these phones is excellent.
> Not to mention that the SIP images are available online as released
> instead of regulated the same way Cisco is.  I just cannot bring myself
> to pay the Cisco premium for hardware then have to give them even more
> money for the things I need to make THEIR hardware work right.  That
> would just seems like Cisco is sticking it to me too much...
>
> $0.02
>
> Wiley
>
> PS.  I have done my best to express that this is MY preference so be
> sure to weight all the opinions you find.  Many have extremely good
> results using the Cisco phones and can justify the cost thusly.  My
> enterprise just isn't built on that large a budget.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gunnar Andersson [mailto:gunnar at jmg.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 2:58 PM
> To: Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7905G
>
> Hi All
>
> Just received my first 7905G from a distributer here in Sweden.
> According to the spec this phone should be able to use SIP. Now I been
> looking on Ciscos home pages for several hours trying to find a "SIP
> image" for this phone.
> No luck at all, need special access to be able to download software to
> this phone. Is it the fact, that I have to pay for a contract of some
> kind to be able to use this phone with SIP and *.
> This was the first product we bought from Cisco... and maybe the last.
>
> rgds
>
> Gunnar Andersson
>
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