[Asterisk-Users] Re: Snom and Multiple calls

[Noah Miller]

>> The vast majority of our handsets are Polycoms.  I know that they do 
>> this correctly (with a little help from CheckGroup/SetGroup and 
>> multiple SIP registrations).  Of course, you can't get the nifty 
>> sidecar for the Polycoms like you can for the 220.  You can get a 
>> sidecar for the Cisco 7960, though, and they can do multiple lines, 
>> correctly, too.
>
> The Cisco phones don't do presence in SIP mode or "hot keypad" (plus 
> I'm not especially fond of the interface).  The Polycom does presence, 
> and very nearly does hot keypad, but I get more information about 
> Polycom's plans from my cat than I do from Polycom, and that worries 
> me.  Every part of the GXP-2000 needs to weigh more (plus the firmware 
> on the one we had a chance to eval was clearly not done cooking yet).  
> Don't even mention Mitel.  :)  Nothing has the number of sidecar 
> buttons we want.  The Snom really is the closest on all fronts (at 
> least it is now that we've got a 360 and it fixes the case design 
> issues we had with the 220).

Just so you know, I don't think anybody has gotten the Polycom presence 
features to work properly with Asterisk.  Am I wrong, anybody?

To implement most of the functionality your mention, we chose to use 
FOP, and I've been very satisfied with it.  It's not the same as 
pushing buttons on a phone, but you get used to it pretty quickly, and 
the set of features is unmatched on any phone.