[asterisk-users] SIP phone recommendation (used to be: no subject)

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Well, just general office use. They are a real-state construction  
company, so the phones will get some heavy use since most of the  
phones are going to sales associates.

Now, one of the things we are most interested in are:
1) Asterisk compatibility
2) Mass provisioning
3) Remote management
4) Excellent audio quality (I know there are many factors involved,  
but would like to rule out the phone set itself)
5) Robustness
6) Vendor reputation and warranties

We have used Linksys 941s in the past and think they're pretty good.  
However, we've only used them in 3-5 phones office environments.  
We've also used the Polycoms IP 501 and 650s. They seem good, but  
sometimes the users complain about the audio being a bit weird in the  
sense that, probably, the silence detection may give the user a  
feeling that the line dropped. Then again, we've only used these once  
(one client installation for each), so for practical purposes, we  
don't really have any larger quantity real-life experience.

Thanks

On Oct 29, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Eric Chamberlain wrote:

> What is the use case?
>
> Linksys, Polycom, Snom, and Aastra all have their strengths and  
> weaknesses.
>
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> Eric Chamberlain, CISSP
> Chief Technical Officer
> Voxilla - http://voxilla.com/
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> We have a client that needs to setup about 80 desk phones (about 50
>> in one location and about another 30 in 5 different locations). Which
>> brand/model would you recommend. We were personally thinking in
>> recommending either Cisco, Aastra, Polycom, or Snom, for we've heard
>> great things about them. However, having no real experience with them
>> makes it hard in recommending one to our customer. The only
>> experience we've had is a very frustrating one trying to load the IP
>> software on a Cisco 7970G and so we assume that if we have to go
>> through that for all 80 phones, we'll probably commit suicide :)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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