[asterisk-users] (no subject)

[Jim Houser]

We agree with Drew and no longer use Grandstream.   We have used a few
Polycom, (best voice quality, hardest to configure).  I have heard good
things about Snom but never used them.  We standardized on Aastra.  Good
build, sound quality, and feature set.  Easy to configure or upgrade and
good pricing.  If you try Snom please share your thoughts.  At present we
are sticking with Aastra due to good results and user feedback.

Jim


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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Drew Gibson
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:06 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] (no subject)

lists at infoway.net wrote:
> 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
>   

We have used Cisco and Aastra, can't comment on Polycom or Snom.

I cannot recommend Cisco, good sound quality but that's it. Ridiculously
overpriced, too few usable features, incredibly awkward to manage.
Aastra have good sound quality, reasonable price, configs are plain text and
not to hard to work with. We have the 9133i as our basic phone and 480i in
the Call Centre for the soft buttons. Both can be fed from the same config
templates.
We used to use Grandstream but quality and support issues have driven us
away.

regards,

Drew

--
Drew Gibson

Systems Administrator
OANDA Corporation
www.oanda.com


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