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[joakimsen at gmail.com]

Honestly, Its my opinion that the Aastra phones are very lacking in
the firmware department. If they could get that sorted out I wouldn't
mind using them. But for now there are too many NAT issues mostly
caused because they use an OLD version of Broadcom CallCtrl. Why they
use an ancient version is beyond me but the phones dont even have a
NAT keepalive option. They promise updates to their firmware but then
they only fix minor bugs.

Grandstream are ok. But as others have said their support is very
lacking. I've had products of theirs behave very oddly....  like
operate and refuse to apply any settings no matter what and not allow
a factory reset... paperweight.

I'd personally use Polycom in the situations where there's no NAT and
the Linksys SPA-phones where you do have NAT.

On 10/29/07, lists at infoway.net <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
>
>
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