Your list seems to lean heavily to the Aastra, while I choose the Polycom 501/601 over the Aastra, I did like the unit I tested and the cordless. In the end the fact that most of the people using the phones would use the speaker phone, Polycom and their history of conference phones made the choice. We rolled 75 phones at one site and another 30 now at remote locations. As far a a receptionist phone, we choose to use a software operator panel instead of a phone that took up most of the desk, there were initial concerns but the results have been excellent. If you have not already done so grab a few people from different parts of the office and have them give their 2 cents, it will help to have their perspectives on the quality and feel of the phones.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vikas</b> <<a href="mailto:topgun9@gmail.com">topgun9@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I need to provide a 80 people office with VOIP.<br><br>I want to commit to one vendor Polycom or Aastra. Price of the phones<br>is not a factor in the decision. The quality of the phones is the<br>factor.<br><br>Some of the features that I am evaluating on are: (arranged in order
<br>of priority)<br>1. Sound quality<br>2. complete product line with conference phone and receptionist phone<br>(not on Aastra)<br>3. cordless (not on 501/430)<br>4. backlit LCD (not on 501/430)<br>5. Inbuilt POE (not on 501)
<br>6. speaker phone<br>7. 2 network ports.<br><br>Which one will you choose ?<br><br>Vikas<br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by <a href="http://Easynews.com">Easynews.com
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