[asterisk-users] Recommend hard phone which supports IAX2?

[Michael Graves]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:43:58 +0100, Tim Panton wrote:


>On 25 Jul 2006, at 16:23, Stephen Bosch wrote:

>> Hi:
>>
>> I'm setting up a branch office, but I don't want to trunk from the  
>> main
>> office because I don't want to introduce any more latency. Also, the
>> office will have only a single extension, so I can't justify the  
>> expense
>> of a second Asterisk server for it.
>>
>> SIP is a pain when going through firewalls, and I'm worried about the
>> latency that would come with using an IPsec tunnel between the two
>> sites, so I'm looking for an IAX2 supporting hard phone, and want to
>> hear recommendations from people who have had direct experience  
>> with such.
>>
>> What are the best IAX2 hard phones?

>I've got a couple of IAX hardphones, with PA168, they are useable,
>but only just. They are hard to hang up (which is a design problem)
>and  a pain to get transfer working (which is a software problem).

>Much as I love IAX, I advise you to buy a decent SIP phone
>(SNOM?).

>At home I have a SIP phone and an nslu2 running asterisk, just to act  
>as a
>protocol converter, but any old 486 or PII will do the
>trick.

I echo this sentiment. Except that I'd recommend Astlinux on a WRAP or Soekris board. Small, low power,fanless, boots from CF or USB key and able to transcode between G.711 and 
G.729a. Astlinux rocks!

Michael