[Asterisk-Users] best hardphone for Asterisk?

[Mike Lynchfield]

We use cisco 7960's but thats not cheap..



BTW Doung
your signature :
"Those that sacrifice essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
 deserve neither liberty nor safety."  -- Ben Franklin (1759)

is a good one.. tell that to your president..and the patriot act.
s/patriot/cutallrights/

PS Andrew.. penguins as in linux based ?
or the phone just quacks all the time ?
;)

On 6/27/06, shadowym <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Which public STUN servers are you using or did you setup your own?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cullin J. Wible [mailto:cwible at algorim.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 8:56 PM
> > To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
> > Discussion'; 'Iain Barker'
> > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] best hardphone for Asterisk?
> >
> > 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
> > >     <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > > Message-ID:
> > >     <Pine.LNX.4.33.0606260002270.1253-100000 at bridget.crompton.com>
> > > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> >
> > "Those that sacrifice essential liberty to obtain a little
> > temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  -- Ben
> > Franklin (1759)
> >
> > ****************************
> > *  Doug Crompton         *
> > *  Richboro, PA 18954    *
> > *  215-431-6307                  *
> > *                        *
> > * doug at crompton.com        *
> > * http://www.crompton.com  *
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> >
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