[Asterisk-Users] best hardphone for Asterisk?

[Cullin J. Wible]

We've used a number of the polycom 301 and 501 phones in our office.

We have also deployed a dozen of the Linksys SPA-1001 single-line FXS
adapters using G726, SIP, NAT and STUN. They are extremely reliable and easy
to deploy - $60-$70 US each.

We tested a number of IAX hard phones and didn't find anything that was
reliable and/or suitable for our corporate setting. We really wanted to run
IAX for remote users, but eventually decided that SIP/STUN was easier to
support.

We also tested the IAXy device and found that it's inability to use DNS
resolution, only be configured on Linux, and only run ulaw/alaw made and
that it cost more then the SPA-1001, which can use DNS, G726/G729 and has
web-based configuration for less money the more attractive option.

We also tested the IAX hard phone made by AT-COM only to find that a number
of features such as call transfer do not work.

For home/remote users: setup STUN, and use a SPA-1001. For a corporate
setting I highly recommend the Polycom phones.

Cheers,

Cullin J. Wible
Co-Founder & CTO
Email Data Source, Inc.
212-514-8900 x1006
 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Doug Crompton
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:49 PM
To: Iain Barker
Cc: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] best hardphone for Asterisk?

Iain,

 Thanks for the repsonse but you are kidding me right? From what I can see
if I bought this phone and two remotes my outlay would be close to $800 US.
This is NOT a home device unless you have nothing better to do with your
money!

You can buy a lot of single line wireless phones and FXS devices for that
amount!

Doug

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Iain Barker wrote:

> Doug,
>
> What you are describing sounds like the Aastra 480-CT, a base 
> Ethernet/SIP screenphone supporting multiple wireless handsets [but as 
> this is a non-commercial list I won't go into more detail here, google 
> for the above model number if you're interested in more info.]
>
> - Iain
>
> ---
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:08:48 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Doug Crompton <doug at crompton.com>
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] best hardphone for Asterisk?
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
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> Still awfully pricey for home use and the styling is not there for a 
> bedroom or many other areas of a modern home. What we need is a 
> wireless sip phone modeled like the panasonic or uniden which allow 
> multiple extension off of one base. The base would connect to the 
> internet. The other problem is many of these phones require power, so 
> even if you have backup for your central system the phone still needs 
> to be on it. Power over ethernet would help.
>
> Doug
>


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