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

[Michael Graves]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:01:38 -0400, lists at infoway.net wrote:

>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.

For my money it's Polycom every time. It's great hardware. Meets all
your requirements. 

I thought that silence supression was specifically disallowed with
Asterisk? Something about timing requirements not being met.

Michael
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