[Asterisk-Users] I need suggestions for on equipment

[hugolivude]

My experience has been to avoid trying to support anlogue phones
altogether - not worth the trouble.  Things here got much better when
we abandoned anlogue and went purely with SIP phones.

The Grandstream 100s weren't that good (poor sound quality), but we
have been mighty impressed with the Polycom Soundpoint 501s.  I got a
301 as well, but it doesn't provide power over Ethernet so it's not as
good for our purposes.  You'll definitely want to reference
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Polycom+Soundpoint+IP+501
when configuring.

Obviously you'll aslo want a router that supports QoS.  We're using
Sveasoft in a Linksys WRT54G and it works well.  You need to be
careful when buying the Linksys because version 5.0 saw a move from
Linux, which runs Sveasoft's Talisman firmware, to VxWorks, which does
not.  You can tell the version from the s/n:

CDF0 = WRT54G v1.0
CDF1 = WRT54G v1.0
CDF2 = WRT54G v1.1
CDF3 = WRT54G v1.1
CDF5 = WRT54G v2.0
CDF7 = WRT54G v2.2
CDF8 = WRT54G v3.0
CDF9 = WRT54G v3.1
CDFA = WRT54G v4.0
CDFB = WRT54G v5.0 (runs VxWorks, not Linux)

CGN0 = WRT54GS v1.0
CGN1 = WRT54GS v1.0
CGN2 = WRT54GS v1.1
CGN3 = WRT54GS v2.0
CGN4 = WRT54GS v2.1
CGN5 = WRT54GS v3.0
CGN6 = WRT54GS v4.0

SJH0 = WTR54GS v1.0

Hugh

On 11/22/05, Tim Litwiller <tim at litwiller.net> wrote:
> Sometime this winter we want to move our company to asterisk from a very
> old comdial executech phone system.
>
> At this point I have a system setup at home that we've been using for
> several months.
> I've tried the grandstream bt101 but have had problems keeping it
> working - some days the message waiting indicator works sometime it
> doesn't and caller id display is questionable also
> I'd like to try the gxp2000, I've heard it can auto answer.
> I also have a sipura 841 but the speaker phone is terrible on that, and
> I haven't found a way to setup auto answer for paging or transfer
> announcement.
>
> So I need suggestions on phone that can auto answer for paging - to let
> people know a call is waiting for them.
> They also need a good caller id display.
>
> Also we are out in the country so a T1 is out of the question price
> wise.  We currently have 4 phone lines and would like to increase that
> to possibly 8.
>
> What hardware would you suggest to connect up to 8 phone lines into the
> asterisk server?
>
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