[Asterisk-Users] 3Com Phones

[pdhales at optusnet.com.au]

If you can find yourself a local Asterisk consultant, they should be able to
let you see some phones and maybe even try them out.

Paul Hales
Technical Manager
AsteriskIT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Hazelbaker" <daniel at highdesertchurch.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3Com Phones


> 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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