[asterisk-users] SPA942 quality for a Bank

[Tom]

At 02:30 PM 10/15/2006, you wrote:
>Before committing to about 50 of the spa942's, I like to take a last 
>poll from those on the list to identify any negative issues that 
>might be associated with the audio, functionality, early failures, 
>etc, on the spa942.

We have been using Cisco hard phones with Asterisk for over two 
years.  Our longest experience has been with 7960g phones although 
recently I switched to the 7970g for evaluation.  Several of us have 
tried the SPA942's for about one month.  Personally I was real happy 
to go back to a Cisco IP phone.  The sound quality is useable but 
just not as good on the SPA942.  And the speaker phone on the SPA942 
is poor enough quality that it is barely usable.

We include the SPA-942 in our side by side demos for prospective 
customers.  So far they are buying Cisco and willing to pay the higher price.

We only have four of the SPA-942's and have not seen any failures in 
our limited use.

>Expecting to deploy these using existing cat5 cabling and both rj45 
>jacks. Been using three of theme in a short term demo with the 
>customer, but the demo systems has been purposefully configured with 
>only basic telephony functions.
>
>Oh... someone mentioned the headset (no handset) pin jack is only 
>for the microphone (and not the speaker) which would seem very odd. 
>Anyone using a headset with the 942 where both the microphone and 
>earpiece function fully?

We have used them with VXI headsets and the microphone works fine.

>Any thoughts?
>_