We use a ton of Grandstream phones and like them. The Polycoms are excellent but pricey to most small business budgets.
As far as using the Grandstream UCMs, I'd recommend just getting a used PC and putting Asterisk on it. UCMs lack a lot of features customers want but for a basic system, it's fine. Plus, Grandstreams support here hasn't been the greatest. We couldn't get an IAX truck to work for a customer and couldn't figure out why. After some e-mails to support they acknowledged it was broken and no time was given for the fix. On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Butch Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 05:04 +0000, Christopher Gray wrote: > > I've heard decent things about the Grandstream DECT phones, but all > > 2nd hand and never tried them. Anyone have experience with those? > > > > A Wired Phone Question: > > I use mostly Linksys / Cisco wired with good results (good sound > > quality, good handsets). How does Polycom compare to the standard > > Cisco units? > > I have used Polycom since I first started using VoIP. Only my very > first couple of experimental phones were something else. I still have > (and use) one of my very first Polycom phones. They are very solid and > don't feel like a toy, as many phones do. The speaker phones are very > good and they have support for headsets (I think all models do) built > in. I don't really like Polycom's conference phone, but that is more > because of the way it looks rather than it's functionality. > > > -- > Butch Evans > Training and Support for WISPs > 702-537-0979 > http://store.wispgear.net/ > http://www.butchevans.com/ > >
