[asterisk-users] Recommend hard phone which supports IAX2?

[Tim Panton]

On 25 Jul 2006, at 16:23, Stephen Bosch wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I'm setting up a branch office, but I don't want to trunk from the  
> main
> office because I don't want to introduce any more latency. Also, the
> office will have only a single extension, so I can't justify the  
> expense
> of a second Asterisk server for it.
>
> SIP is a pain when going through firewalls, and I'm worried about the
> latency that would come with using an IPsec tunnel between the two
> sites, so I'm looking for an IAX2 supporting hard phone, and want to
> hear recommendations from people who have had direct experience  
> with such.
>
> What are the best IAX2 hard phones?

I've got a couple of IAX hardphones, with PA168, they are useable,
but only just. They are hard to hang up (which is a design problem)
and  a pain to get transfer working (which is a software problem).

Much as I love IAX, I advise you to buy a decent SIP phone
(SNOM?).

At home I have a SIP phone and an nslu2 running asterisk, just to act  
as a
protocol converter, but any old 486 or PII will do the
trick.

Tim.

Tim Panton

www.mexuar.com