Look at the Linksys SPA942, it's a great phone for the price. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Radcliffe > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 10:21 AM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3Com Phones > > Hi Daniel, > > If you are not locked in to an asterisk solution, I have a > friend I have done a couple of network/phone systems with. I > am also looking at Asterisk but have not gotten into it that far. > > Rich Radcliffe > Kondor Waffenamt > (760) 240-4728 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/26/2006 9:55:38 AM >>> > 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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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