[asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones?

Wed Nov 1 16:24:38 MST 2006

Do the speakerphone's work well on Snom 320's?  I have a Linksys 841 and
could never get the speakerphone working well.

-CP 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jessee J
Holmes
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:45 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones?

Writing this as a user of VoIP and not a reseller, (meaning off the
record), we really love the Snom phones here as well, I wish the Snom
300's had a bit more functionality (like the Grandstream), and the Snom
320's and 360's were a little less confusing with their buttons (aka too
many buttons on the keypad for some non-tehcy end users).

But they have terrific functionality and great audio quality in most
office environments, and are very easy to set up and install. Everyone
seems to really love them.

The Cisco phones are nice as well, but IF you decide to go with Cisco,
READ what you are buying and what you are getting before just blindly
buying it (in fact, do this anyways, it's common sense to do this before
buying any product, anywhere). Cisco products normally don't come with
half of the items you need, and unfortunately most resellers (and Cisco)
don't make this too easy to read and understand. DO NOT buy refurbished
Cisco if you want support, especially since there has been some bogus
Cisco voice equipment shipping lately from some of the certified Cisco
resellers/distributors. Network World had an article on this recently:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/102306counterfeit.html

Cisco may have a great look to their phones and have the design very
well thought out (not to mention the big Cisco name - which is good
enough for some), but they are normally harder to install and configure
and are VERY proprietary. If you buy Cisco, Cisco wants you to ONLY buy
Cisco (for support and marketing reasons).

Snom 320's are a great choice just because these phones mainly support
everything the Snom 360's support (i.e. sidecars) Only main differences
between these two models is that the Snom 360 has the larger LCD screen
as well as newly added XML support.

We have about 50 stations here, some management, some support, some
sales and have pretty much decided as a company to completely use Snom
phones for all of our employees.

Keep in mind, each phone out there will have their specific pro's and
con's, as well as quarks ... seems there is no real "perfect phone" out
there yet. But Snom in my mind, is pretty dang close.

This all of course is just personal opinion from past experience.

Jessee Holmes

Atacomm / Ataractic Corporation

www.atacomm.com

V: 1-877-700-VOIP

jholmes at atacomm.com

Looking for voice over IP products?  Visit our VoIP store at
http://voipstore.atacomm.com/

On Nov 1, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Tom Vile wrote:

I love the Snom phones as well.  The function keys are great and easy to
use.

On 10/31/06, mitcheloc <mitcheloc at gmail.com > wrote:

My vote is definitely for Snom, I've worked with Cisco phones for
years, but the Snom is much better integrated, and the feature buttons 
can be retooled for any environment, making custom installs very easy.

On 10/31/06, Conrad Wood <asterisk-users at conradwood.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 13:29 -0600, Joe Dennick wrote: 
> > Comparing Snom to Cisco phones is sort of like comparing Mercedes to
Kia
> > cars....
>
> Not really. Both are very good phones.
>
> * My Clients prefer cisco because it looks more business-like. - The
new 
> snom phones do look better though and the side car rules.
> * The Cisco phone 'feels' very good in your hand, and the voicequality
> is superb. (I'd say slightly better than that of the snom 360)
> 
> * Technically, I find the snom phone more advanced and I can do more
> cool stuff with it - Cisco doesn't seem to like giving features away
in
> SIP.
> * Snom phones, for example, have freely programmable buttons that can 
> park/retrieve/transfer calls, show line status etc. I can't get that
to
> work with Cisco phones at all.
> * Putting custom ringtones (and choosing which ones to use) is a
> no-brainer with snoms and real trouble with ciscos. 
> * On ciscos, I find the "upgrade" path from sccp to sip a totally
> unnecessary annoyance.
>
>
>
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