If you put a small PBX at the customer’s site rather than centralized, the Grandstream UCM series with Grandstream IP phones make it pretty easy. You can create global and model templates, then to add a phone you basically tell the PBX the MAC address, extension number, and person’s name, then plug in the phone and the PBX pushes the config out to the phone.
From: Lewis Bergman Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 1:24 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] VOIP PBX - Hosted Really looking for a platform that has as close to zero phone config as possible. Easy management, hopefully someone to do all the 911 and so forth as that was a pain last time. The ability to copy phone configs would be nice. On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:09 PM Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: I always felt Yealinks felt EXTREMELY cheap, but in terms of function I've heard nothing bad. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: Before I ever saw a Yealink phone I thought they would be super terrible and cheesy, given how weird the name is. Then I bought a SIP-T22P for $60 to test out and was pleasantly surprised. The http setup interface is quite full featured and the phones are very easy to use with Asterisk/FreePBX. If you don't care about color screens and fancy features like pairing with bluetooth headsets, Yealinks can be found for $55-65 each... My main phone is now a SIP-T28P. My only complaint about them is that they are not as heavy as they should be, and change positions on a desk, which can be fixed by supergluing some steel or lead weights into the hollow parts of the snap-on 45 degree angle desk stand. On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Andreas Wiatowski <andr...@silowireless.com> wrote: We are using mostly grandstream ATA. We are mainly using this platform for Business PBX…so Grandstream, Yeahlink and Polycom sip phones. Cheers, ______________________________ Andreas Wiatowski | CEO Silo Wireless Inc. Email andr...@silowireless.com 19 Sage Court Brantford, Ontario N3R 7T4 (CANADA) Tel +1.519.449.5656 Extension-600|Fax +1.519.449.5536 |Toll Free +1.866.727.4138 From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Paul Stewart Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 10:51 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] VOIP PBX - Hosted What are folks using for CPE? On Aug 11, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Andreas Wiatowski <andr...@silowireless.com> wrote: We use Bicom Systems Muti Tenant PBX . Buy a trunk or two with channels and share with all your instances…..works great…. About an 8K investment and yearly maintenance/licencing… Easy to manage…. Cheers, ______________________________ Andreas Wiatowski | CEO Silo Wireless Inc. Email andr...@silowireless.com 19 Sage Court Brantford, Ontario N3R 7T4 (CANADA) Tel +1.519.449.5656 Extension-600|Fax +1.519.449.5536 |Toll Free +1.866.727.4138 From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jim Bouse [Brazos WiFi] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 8:56 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] VOIP PBX - Hosted I’ve got 41 freepbx instances running on a VM host. The challenge is keeping up with the security updates. I’m moving to iPiFony right now so I have less to manage. Jim Bouse Owner Mobile IT Pro - Brazos WiFi 979-985-5912 j...@brazoswifi.com From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Lewis Bergman Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 7:51 AM To: Animal Farm <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] VOIP PBX - Hosted I am considering getting back into this business in 6 more months and am wondering what all are using. I still really like IPiFony but I don't think I need that much hand holding now. Have been looking at FreePBX and a few others. Since this group is full of opinions, lets have some. I know many use Netsapiens and I even respect some of them ;)