[asterisk-users] Best non polycom SIP conference room phone

[C F]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Carlos Alvarez <carlos at televolve.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:02 AM, C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I find that the bottom line of all polycom haters is ones inability of
>> comprehending the config files and not in its quality.
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> We have no problem with their config files.  They are no worse than anything
> else, including the SPA series phones that we greatly prefer over the
> Polycom.  The Polycom phones simply are more effort and more time-consuming
> than the SPA phones, and some others (though there are worse phones).  We
> hate working with them for a wide variety of reasons, but the config files
> are certainly not one of them.
>

Time consuming in what way? Do you mind elaborating why you hate them?

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>> However check out Panasonic. They make a sip conference phone.
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> I didn't know about the conference phone from them.  We sell their wireless
> phones and found them extremely annoying to learn to configure, with lots of
> quirks and bugs, but once they are working they are good.  Once you get to
> know the oddities and have a suitable provisioning server set up, deploying
> more is no problem.  Troubleshooting is annoying because the documentation
> is poor and there are lots of quirks/bugs/unexpected "features."

Its a nice although expensive phone, kx-nt700.
http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BTSModelDetail?storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&catGroupId=141510&itemId=330235&modelNo=KX-NT700&displayTab=O


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> User acceptance on the Panasonic is very good.
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> Carlos Alvarez
> TelEvolve
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