[Asterisk-Users] Cisco Ip phones

[Rich Adamson]

> Hi there does any of you use ip phones from cisco on asterisk and how is the quality of this 
configuration ? i have to make a price of an asterisk
> server with 100 ip phones but i need stable phones snom is nice but still i have trouble with 
echo on them and budgetone is cheap and feels cheap
>  

You probably should do a little reading from the wiki and past postings
as there is no lack of information on this topic.

Cisco and Polycom phones rank the highest in terms of overall quality
by those that have been exposed to lots of sip phones. Lots of sip
phones in the middle, while the most inexpensive phones tend to be
rated lower quality for many different reasons.

When working with non-technical people and sip phones, they tend not to
like Snom's and Grandstreams (and others) due to what technical people
think are silly things. Those silly things are things like:
- light weight phones that slide around the desk
- displays that aren't readable unless you stand up
- poor display images (including letters)
- function keys that are not intuitive (or don't work as expected)
- buttons that are hard to press
- speaker phone functions that should never have been included since
  they don't work in a reasonable office environment
- menues that are difficult to use by non-technical users, or are layered
  so deep it takes time to find commonly used functions
- etc, etc, etc.