[asterisk-users] Which IP Phone is good to use at reception desk?

[Noah Miller]

Hi Zeeshan -

> > Is there any better and receptionist friendly IP phone, with just one
> > button parking option, and maybe somebetter option for paging as well.
> >
> You might play with the ParkAndAnnounce() application which parks a call
> and then plays the resultant parking slot number to a channel of your
> choosing.

Or you can try the one-button parking patches at:

http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=7090
http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=6340

You could couple this with the metermaid patch so your receptionist
can monitor those parked calls.  If you have a phone that has lots of
line buttons (Polycom 601 w/sidecar, Cisco 7960/7970 w/sidecar, Snom
360 w/sidecar, etc), you can monitor lots of parking spaces.

As far as the paging, are you using the asterisk Page() application?
Coupled with a phone that can do auto-answering, you should be able to
replicate any behavior that the nortel could do.


- Noah



On 10/3/06, Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC <mojo at horanappraisals.com> wrote:
> You might play with the ParkAndAnnounce() application which parks a call
> and then plays the resultant parking slot number to a channel of your
> choosing.
>
> Moj
>
> Zeeshan Zakaria wrote:
> > I need a good phone for the reception desk. Currrently I am using
> > Grandstream, but parking and over head paging is not easy for the
> > receptionist, as it was on the Nortel phone. Paging is still acceptable,
> > which is programmed on one of the shortkeys, but parking on this phone
> > needs to press #70# everytime. I programmed it so that we can press TRNF
> > button and then a shortkey, which dials 70, but doing this doesn't play
> > the voice prompt saying where the call is parked, and thats something
> > which we want to know everytime.
> >

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