[Asterisk-Users] Extension buttons

[Chris Clifton]

The cisco 7960's have 6 programmable buttons .... although I must say I feel
this is subpar to most non-voip digital sets today that easily have 10-12
buttons on them.

- Chris
Netlabz, Inc.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Krider" <david at davidkrider.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:33 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Extension buttons


> I've downloaded the entire archive of articles and searched through them
> for an answer on this, but I haven't come across one yet. I'm looking to
> replace a small phone system in my church with Asterisk, and I'm stuck
> looking for phones. I know that the staff are going to want a button for
> their commonly-called extensions, but I'm having trouble finding phones
> that have, say, 10 programmable buttons for this sort of thing. I'm left
> to conclude that most phones can do this sort of thing by clicking
> through some combination of buttons. However, it would seem that the
> average price for a nice SIP phone eliminates the possibility of just
> ordering some to find out. Can someone please tell me how this is
> handled in general? For instance, the Polycom 600 doesn't seem to have
> ANY buttons that can be programmed for particular extensions, but I have
> to think it can do so fairly easily. Perhaps these phones are being sold
> primarily for very large business (like my Fortune 500 company) where
> you use a directory for numbers, and have only a few buttons for
> programming. I guess the follow-on question is just to ask: what phone
> would be good for a 12-18 extension office, where people want to quickly
> ring up others because of long walks between the offices?
>
> Thanks,
> dk
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