[Asterisk-Users] What business IP phone to use

[Conrad Wood]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:48 -0700, Colin Anderson wrote:
> >The cost saving of being able to pin-point a cabling/NIC/bandwidth
> >problem down to the port on the switch easily and quickly is wonderful
> 
> We also use 3com NJ-200's which is a 4 port switch in a wall plate that has
> SNMP and other goodies. I can troubleshoot down to the wall plate, anywhere
> in the world. Last year I was on holidays in Vancouver (1000K away from the
> office) and I got the call that an exec couldn't plug his laptop into the
> wall, no signal, and he was pissed. I whip out my laptop, walk across the
> street to Starbucks, got a wifi signal, VPN in, I check it out - nope, it's
> your stupid laptop, PHB-boy. Turns out he disabled the onboard NIC. That
> single incident, to me justifies the whole expense of a good infrastructure
> (and to the PHB too - he was spooked that I could do that) 
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I used to have VNC and TopgunSSH on my Palm and an Infred connection to
my mobile and from there on to the internet....