[asterisk-biz] IP Phone/Hard Phone

[Henry L.Coleman]

I have always had a preference for the Grandstream GXP 2000
These sets NAT very well, have dual ports and can be PoE.
The firmware used to be poor but the recent releases are very solid.
If you want a more robust phone then take a look at their lastest
business phone, it has the same specs but is built using heavier plastics
and the sound quality is improved.
The Aastra 55i is also a nice phone (although more expensive) it has very
good sound quality and should be fine in a local area network situation.





< Seysan>
> Wow, Thank you.
>
> So till now I think the best candidates for a REAL WORLD Office PBX
> Deployment are:
> Snom
> Aastra
> Polycom
>
> Can you guys be more specific on the models and good cheap/reliable
> sources
> to buy these phones ?
>
> Thanks to all,
>
>
>
> On 7/17/07, Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 7/13/07, W. Glenn Campbell <wcampbell at netstarsolutions.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Polycom (In my opinion) has the best quality.
>> >
>>
>> Polycom have great sound quality and I would say Aastra are very close
>> as well. The only problem with these two phones is their poor NAT
>> support. Polycom just doesnt really have it (maybe their 2.0
>> firmware... but good luck getting a copy of that. Aastra I don't know
>> whats going on with them, they have a few firmware bugs which they
>> have promised for a few releases would be fixed. I find this totally
>> acceptable because they dont use their own SIP stack, they use
>> Broadcom's CallCtrl. Maybe if they started to use the current version
>> (right now on the 480i they use CallCtrl 1.4.2 and have ZERO NAT
>> options).
>>
>> IMO best overall phone to use right now is Grandstream or Linksys SPA
>> (if you can join their VAR/serviceprovider program) only problem with
>> both these phones is there is no way to decline an inbound call..
>>
>> Never tried a SNOM but I keep on hearing good things about them.
>>
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