[asterisk-users] Decent Voip Phones for enterprise

[Paul Hales]

There are some decent third part central management systems for the
Linksys phones (the company I work for write one of them) - the same
piece of software will also manage Polycom and Snom phones (As well as
Aastra phones and a few others)

With regards to programmable buttons, the snoms are decent.
The Polycom's can do this with their expansion modules, but they cost a
bit more. (but are nicer, IMHO)

I run an Aastra 480i on my desk here, and I like that.

All of the phones will do a shared address book, and the Snom's can
query LDAP. Haven't used this function myself.

Don't know anything about the cisco phones. Over the past 4 years
working on Asterisk I haven't really touched them.

PaulH


Kev Szaszvari wrote:
> Hi there
>
> Our company is using the Linksys SPA-942 Phones, and they are pretty
> useless.
> They dont have any central management or provisioning, as well as a
> pretty bad interface.
>
> Can anyone reccomend any voip phones( Cisco, Polycom, SNOM ) that have
>
> * Central Management for all the phones (We dont mind if we have to
> buy the software to manage them)
> * Programable shortcut buttons, So i can program in on certian phones
> quick dials to queues.
> * Optional but bonus, The ability to have a shared address book
> accross the phones.
>
> Can i use the Cisco phone managemenet software and the Cisco phones
> with Asterisk, Or is it 100% cisco.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards,
> Kev
>
>
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