[Asterisk-Users] 3Com Phones

[Kerry Garrison]

Look at the Linksys SPA942, it's a great phone for the price. 

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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Radcliffe
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 10:21 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3Com Phones
> 
>    Hi Daniel,
> 
>    If you are not locked in to an asterisk solution, I have a 
> friend I have done a couple of network/phone systems with.  I 
> am also looking at Asterisk but have not gotten into it that far.
> 
>    Rich Radcliffe
>    Kondor Waffenamt
>    (760) 240-4728
>    bigbird at kwamt.com
>  
> 
> >>> daniel at highdesertchurch.com 3/26/2006 9:55:38 AM >>>
> Drat, because the 3Com phones looked pretty good for the price. :)   
> Is there somewhere that has a compatibility list for Asterisk 
> with all the phones that are known to work/not work with 
> Asterisk; since apparently VoIP phone companies incorrectly 
> state that they support the SIP protocol (I don't consider, 
> "we support SIP as long as it only talks to our server 
> because we tweaked it just a bit" to be "supported").
> 
> I am looking for a good 60 phones.  We are upgrading our entire phone 
> 
> system (and *old* NEC PBX).  We don't need anything fancy on 
> most of the phones, just the "usual" mid-size business features.  
> Speakerphone, Hold, Park, Transfer, Voicemail; and we need at least 2 
> 
> attendant stations that can see all in-use phone lines.  We 
> are trying to keep the costs (relatively) down, hence using 
> Asterisk instead of a full commercial solution.  It is very 
> disconcerting to know the providers are essentially lying 
> about what their phones support. (3Com states their phones 
> are SIP compatible, not 3Com's version of SIP compatibile).
> 
> Thanks for the info, hopefully somebody will have some 
> recommendations for a good phone brand that actually IS 
> Asterisk compatible.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On Mar 26, 2006, at 12:01 AM, Jared Valentine wrote:
> 
> > I would not recommend the 3Com phones for use with Asterisk.
> >
> > 3Com 3100 series phones do not support SIP with non-3Com systems.   
> > They have
> > a basic boot loader which must download code from a 3Com 
> NBX or a 3Com 
> > VCX system.  If you don't have either of these, then you won't get 
> > runtime code on the phone, thereby making it impossible to use the 
> > thing with Asterisk.
> >
> > I've heard rumors that the 3103 phones have enough storage space on
> 
> > the
> > phone to store a SIP image, but I don't have any more 
> information than 
> > that.
> >
> >
> > As far as 3Com licensing is concerned, it's not per year, it's per- 
> > seat (one-time charge), just like any other commercial VoIP 
> PBX vendor 
> > (Cisco, Avaya, Shoretel, etc.)
> >
> > Jared Valentine
> > hidden at xmission.com
> 
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