[asterisk-users] (no subject)

[Peder @ NetworkOblivion]

What is the issue with the Grandstream?  We are getting tired of Cisco 
issues, so we have started looking at Grandstream and they seem to be 
pretty good.  The Polycom work well, but they seem to die after about a 
year or so.  We bought 20 of them about 2 years ago and 7 of them have 
died or had buttons stop working so we had to replace them.  I haven't 
had a single Cisco do that and we have probably 100 of them.

Jim Houser wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [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
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--
> 
> asterisk-users mailing list
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--
> 
> asterisk-users mailing list
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>