[Asterisk-Users] VOIP phonesets vs. cheap Analog touch-tone sets with Asterisk

[Stephen R. Besch]

>On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:34, Steve Murphy wrote:
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>>Hello--
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>>I've been asked an interesting question, and I'm too ignorant to answer
>>it authoritatively (yet). Can anyone help me?
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>>Question: If I'm going to implement a somewhat small (10-80) phone
>>system, and I have a choice of using VOIP phoneset (like SNOM or
>>Grandstream or Cisco, etc), vs. cheap analog touch-tone phones, exactly
>>what features will I kiss goodbye if I use the cheap analogs?
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>>In other words, what features will a (more expensive) VOIP phoneset
>>provide, that the analog won't?
>>
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If you need any off-site extensions - I have one in Nova Scotia off our 
Buffalo server - then VoIP is great, and dramatically cheaper than 
analog.  However, there is nothing stopping you using a mixed 
environment. Put analog phones where the wiring is easy and VoIP where 
the wiring is hard and/or there is already suitable ethernet infrastructure.

Stephen R. Besch