[Asterisk-Users] A good SIP receptionist phone

[Matthew Boehm]

Adam Goryachev wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 18:02 -0700, Sean Kennedy wrote:
>
>> 2) There isn't anything like what you want.  I know, I want the same
>> thing.  There is no phone out there that will do this with any
>> protocol that asterisk uses.  This is the one major failing of
>> asterisk ( and voip in general.  I smell an oportunity for a phone
>> manufacture ), and what keeps it out of a lot of places.
>
> It's alright, you can come out from under your rock now....
>
> The Polycom IP 600, Cisco 7960, and apparently the SNOM (some model)
> phones can all do what he wants. ie, have multiple lines with blinking
> red lights when a call arrives on that line.
>
> The polycom ip600 and cisco 7960 both have 6 lines available.

    Yes, but each of those 6 lines on the 7960 must have their own seperate
SIP username/password. And if you are a small office with 6 7960s, thats 36
username/passwords.

-Matthew