If you can find yourself a local Asterisk consultant, they should be able to let you see some phones and maybe even try them out.
Paul Hales Technical Manager AsteriskIT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Hazelbaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 3:55 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3Com Phones > 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
