[Asterisk-Users] 3Com Phones

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

3Com is one of the few that lie about it.  Many Cisco phones support 
SIP, but not all of them.  I think Nortel also lies about SIP on some of 
their phones.

Daniel Hazelbaker wrote:
> 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.