I know a business that tried those phones, and removed them. They found that Polycom phones were 'more' perfect.
PaulH Bruno Castelo Branco wrote: > hi > O use around 500 atcom530, they are work perfect > www.atcom.com.cn > > Gordon Henderson wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Kev Szaszvari wrote: >> >> >>> Hi there >>> >>> Our company is using the Linksys SPA-942 Phones, and they are pretty >>> useless. >>> They dont have any central management or provisioning, as well as a pretty >>> bad interface. >>> >>> Can anyone reccomend any voip phones( Cisco, Polycom, SNOM ) that have >>> >>> * Central Management for all the phones (We dont mind if we have to buy >>> the software to manage them) >>> >> >> I always wondered about this - my target is the SME - say 4-150 seats - >> people don't move desks, change office that often, staff "churn" is >> typically low, so I program the phones once then leave them there. If you >> move desk you take your phone with you. If you leave then the phone can be >> renamed via it's web interface relatively easily. >> >> Maybe I'm just dealing with simple (dumb?) offices, but I'm curious as to >> what people do with the phones that require this sort of central >> management. (And regular phone updating) >> >> >>> * Programable shortcut buttons, So i can program in on certian phones >>> quick dials to queues. >>> >> >> How about implementing this in the PBX. >> >> >>> * Optional but bonus, The ability to have a shared address book accross >>> the phones. >>> >> >> Same here. >> >> So some phones do have nice programmable buttons - and that's good, but in >> my PBX I have the space for about 600 speed-dials (3-digit extensions) >> which are web managed by the admin, and 30 personal ones settable on the >> phone *00 through *29 ... (I know this sometimes might clash with a phones >> own 'star' codes though) >> >> But maybe this is just me ... When I started playing with asterisk I >> bought a small number of different phones to get a feel for them and was >> frustrated by a lack of common functions across them, so put all features >> back into the PBX - things like diverts, follow-me, voicemail and so on >> are all handled by my asterisk system rather than relying on a particular >> SIP phone to handle it... >> >> However if you want to know what phones I use, it's mostly Grandstream for >> now. I provision them using gsutil, and when customers want something a >> bit more posh, it's Snoms. >> >> Gordon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users