[Asterisk-Users] IP Phone with Standard Power Ethernet

[Tom]

At 09:31 PM 7/11/2005, you wrote:
>I am looking at phones for my asterisk system and seem to have a problem.
>The only Power over Ethernet phones I can find that support the IEEE
>standard are 3com. Cisco uses its own proprietary ( and is expensive to
>boot ), snom has a different but equally non-IEEE method, and i'm havent
>found another phone that I'm confident can do the job for our office.
>
>Whats a good high quality ip phone that uses IEEE power over ethernet --
>or is there a problem with IEEE power over ethernet??

Cisco supports 802.3af with a special cross-over cable which is easy and 
cheap to make.

http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Cisco+POE

We are using this with both the 7905g and 7960g phones.  We are quite happy 
with the phones.

Tom