[Asterisk-Users] Phones

[Simon Woodhead]

Hi Nick,

You'll probably run into quality problems making calls over the ISDN from
Xten via *. We did which led us to try several other softphones which were
better and worse, e.g. Pingtel was great from a quality point of view but
the interface wasn't.

We're using snom 100s at the moment which are working great (apart from a
headset issue which may or may not be relevant). We also have one of the 4
port analogue cards from Digium with traditional POTS phones/faxes connected
in to it. They work fine as well.

For the future, we'll be getting snoms for all the new phones and keeping
the existing analogues to the capacity of the card. We'll only be (only are)
using softphones for out of office laptop use although have also set up an
0800 dial-in on * to enable authorised users to make free calls in from
their home/mobile and then dial internal extensions, or external numbers on
the company which really works very well.

We started out with the ideal of a softphone and have retraced sharply from
it. A hardware sip phone is more expensive yet provides many benefits in
usability and quality. Using analogue phones is great for users (as little
changes) and the quality is fine although per port it is a more expensive
route than a hardware sip phone, certainly at the lower end.

Maybe I'll be shot down in flames but that is certainly how it has panned
out for us.

All the best,
Simon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Knight" <nick at omniis.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:21 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Phones


Hello all,



I am a newbie to this list - and so far very impressed with the
functionality of Asterisk. So far I have setup a simple soft phone
running on a windows PC making calls to other SIP soft phones.



Later this week I hope to get UK ISDN2e up and running with it!



My question is I would like the experience and feedback from users about
what equipment/software you are all using for phones to connect to
Asterisk, so fat I have been playing with xten soft phone which works
very well but before I make my decision on which phones to use would
like the feedback of the group.



Regards



Nick

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