The 3com NBX phones use a protocol called H3, developed by graduate students at MIT. The protocol has no documentation at all (except by a very P.O.ed guy in Australia. 3com can by the protocol when they aquired NBX corp in 1999. (NBX corp was the company formed by MIT to market the system).
So.... Short answer... NO, the NBX phones can not be used by Asterisk or any other system... Long answer... There is supposed to be a beta SIP firmware for the NBX phones, derived from the 3com SIP phones (which were apparently very similar hardware). 3com disavowes any knowledge of this firmware, and their SIP phone have been discontinued. There are people on this list that have used said firmware, but they have not indicated a lot of success. 3com has recently (weell, over a year ago.. but that's recent in terms of 3com development) announced a system called the VBX (which is supposed to support SIP) and SIP support for the NBX, which means that there may be a sip image available eventually for the NBX phones. If you are looking at buying the phones to use with Asterisk, you would be better off buying another vendors product. If you already have an NBX... the landscape is going to be changing soon (we hope). BTW, the NBX was supposed to be, 4 years ago, what Asterisk is today... Open Source, expandable and extensible. We did our research and asked our questions and purchased the system. spent $14000 Canadian. It still sells for about the same price. We even joined their Solutions Provider Program... what we got was a system that will do what we want... but will cost us another $10000 CDN. So... cheers to Mark for starting, and continuing, a system that is all, and much more, that the NBX wanted to, be but couldn't... My appologies to all who feel this is off topic... Derek Bruce Calgary Telecom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Sailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:38 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] 3com NBX phones > Does anyone know if the 3Com NBX 2102 series phones with with * ? There > are a crapload (a very precise measurement) on eBay, but I can't figure > out what protocols they talk. > > Tim > > -- > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > >> Tim Sailer >< Coastal Internet, Inc. << > >> Network and Systems Operations >< PO Box 726 << > >> http://www.buoy.com >< Moriches, NY 11955 << > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >< (631) 399-2910 (888) 924-3728 << > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users