[asterisk-users] Decent Voip Phones for enterprise

[Paul Hales]

I know a business that tried those phones, and removed them.

They found that Polycom phones were 'more' perfect.

PaulH


Bruno Castelo Branco wrote:
> 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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