[Asterisk-Users] Re: Snom phones - any advice

[Randy Williams]

Hmm, quick question.

Does the issue occur on all current models of SNOM phones, or just the 
320 and 360 mentioned below?

RandyW

Nils Ohlmeier wrote:

>On Friday 08 July 2005 14:17, Noah Miller wrote:
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>>Hi Patrick -
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>>>>>We are about to buy several Snom phones.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anyone have warnings or advices against these phones ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Our finalists were Cisco, Polycom and Snom.
>>>>>
>>>>>We will be using only the SIP protocol.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>One particularly weird behavior on the Snom phones - When the phone
>>is either 1) off-hook without a call, or 2) on-hook and ringing, if
>>another call comes into the phone, it will tell asterisk it is busy.
>>Most other phones in this case will roll the second call over to the
>>next available line, but Snom phones will give a busy message back to
>>asterisk.  I went crazy with my configs trying to figure out how to
>>stop this, but Snom has said that this behavior is intentional.  I
>>don't know why.
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>To prevent further rumore about this "feature": for the snom 320 and 360 there 
>will be firmwares available which will also accept incoming calls (ring) when 
>you are in a menu or some other initial user interaction.
>
>Best regards
>  Nils Ohlmeier
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