[olug] Which Asterisk?

[Neal R]

  I have two of the Snom phones already. I will give them a try per your
suggestion.


Shawn L Djernes wrote:
> Yes, the 7960s are still very hot.  The 7940 are a bit less then 6-months
> ago.  I would be interested in what price you would want for the PoE switch,
> if you have one.
>
> I would at least try the Snom phones.  If you want, I probably have one I
> can loan you.
>
> Thanks, 
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Neal
> R
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 11:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [olug] Which Asterisk?
>
>
>     How much are the Polycom? I've got probably a dozen Cisco phones if
> I start digging and Ebay still wants 'em.
>
>
>
> Phil Brutsche wrote:
>   
>> Luke-Jr wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> In my experience, Cisco stuff is generally "looks nice, has a huge
>>>       
> reputation, 
>   
>>> but sucks a lot in reality"-- especially when it comes to their phones.
>>>       
> The 
>   
>>> SIP firmware tends to be the "we make it because we have to" and doesn't
>>>       
> get 
>   
>>> the attention that the SCCP firmware does.
>>>     
>>>       
>> When it comes to SIP phones Cisco is bottom of the barrel and is only
>> barely better than a bare-bones Grandstream, the only reason people use
>> Cisco 7940 and 7960 phones is Cisco's reputation for equipment that
>> largely doesn't suck.
>>
>> Of course, you need get past the proprietary nature of their
>> interoperability protocols (spanning trees, link aggregation groups,
>> etc) first.
>>
>> Me? Bitter about Cisco?  Naaaah
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> That said, at work we use only Cisco IP phones (and I'm the one stuck 
>>> supporting them). So I can't comment on Snom or other products-- for all
>>>       
> I 
>   
>>> know they could be even worse, but I tend to doubt it.
>>>     
>>>       
>> You might be surprised how much a lot of VoIP stuff sucks.
>>
>> That's why I suggested Polycom - I know they *don't* suck, and one
>> absolutely MUST HAVE feature on the Asterisk box at work (intercom aka
>> paging) works gracefully with Polycom and a very small list of others.
>>
>> PS I LOATH Asterisk. I miss our old Nortel BCM, it expensive and
>> complicated to set up but at least the features it supports works
>> reliably - with Asterisk call forwarding absolutely CANNOT be used in
>> conjunction with paging (Asterisk speak: intercom) or hunt groups
>> (Asterisk speak: ring groups).
>>
>>   
>>     
>
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