[asterisk-users] Decent Voip Phones for enterprise

[Bruno Castelo Branco]

hi
O use around 500 atcom530, they are work perfect
www.atcom.com.cn

Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, 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)
>>     
>
> I always wondered about this - my target is the SME - say 4-150 seats - 
> people don't move desks, change office that often, staff "churn" is 
> typically low, so I program the phones once then leave them there. If you 
> move desk you take your phone with you. If you leave then the phone can be 
> renamed via it's web interface relatively easily.
>
> Maybe I'm just dealing with simple (dumb?) offices, but I'm curious as to 
> what people do with the phones that require this sort of central 
> management. (And regular phone updating)
>
>   
>> * Programable shortcut buttons, So i can program in on certian phones 
>> quick dials to queues.
>>     
>
> How about implementing this in the PBX.
>
>   
>> * Optional but bonus, The ability to have a shared address book accross 
>> the phones.
>>     
>
> Same here.
>
> So some phones do have nice programmable buttons - and that's good, but in 
> my PBX I have the space for about 600 speed-dials (3-digit extensions) 
> which are web managed by the admin, and 30 personal ones settable on the 
> phone *00 through *29 ... (I know this sometimes might clash with a phones 
> own 'star' codes though)
>
> But maybe this is just me ... When I started playing with asterisk I 
> bought a small number of different phones to get a feel for them and was 
> frustrated by a lack of common functions across them, so put all features 
> back into the PBX - things like diverts, follow-me, voicemail and so on 
> are all handled by my asterisk system rather than relying on a particular
> SIP phone to handle it...
>
> However if you want to know what phones I use, it's mostly Grandstream for 
> now. I provision them using gsutil, and when customers want something a 
> bit more posh, it's Snoms.
>
> Gordon
>
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