[asterisk-users] Grandstream GXP2000 -- What's the Catch?

[Tom Vile]

They brake easy.
Speaker phone is not very good.
Overall sound not good compared to a Snom, Polycom or Cisco phone.
Drop registrations with Asterisk randomly.
Power supplies die.  Had 4 out of 10 go bad within a year.
LCD backlight died on 2 that I deployed.

We only do the Snom 320 or 360's now and are just as easy to configure and
have alot of great options as well.

On 11/15/06, Jeronimo Romero <jromero at eusnetworks.com> wrote:
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> We are doing a medium sized office in NYC with 80 phones. The customer
> originally requested Polycom 601 phones. The COO also authorized us to
> purchase 2 Grandstream GXP2000 phones for the mail room. We find these
> phones much easier to configure and work with asterisk . They support BLF &
> intercom right out of the box. They can also be centrally managed and
> provisioned. They also sound great and work in a very intuitive way. We
> don't have real life experience deploying this phone so I'm just going to
> ask:
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> Is there a catch?  Why the huge price difference? These phones seem to do
> everything a busy corporate office would need. Is there a big qualitative
> difference between this phone and Polycom501/601?? Is there a major problem
> with this phone not disclosed by the manufacturer or vendors. Some feedback
> from people who have deployed them would be great.
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> Thanks In advance.
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> JR
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