Hi Nick, You'll probably run into quality problems making calls over the ISDN from Xten via *. We did which led us to try several other softphones which were better and worse, e.g. Pingtel was great from a quality point of view but the interface wasn't.
We're using snom 100s at the moment which are working great (apart from a headset issue which may or may not be relevant). We also have one of the 4 port analogue cards from Digium with traditional POTS phones/faxes connected in to it. They work fine as well. For the future, we'll be getting snoms for all the new phones and keeping the existing analogues to the capacity of the card. We'll only be (only are) using softphones for out of office laptop use although have also set up an 0800 dial-in on * to enable authorised users to make free calls in from their home/mobile and then dial internal extensions, or external numbers on the company which really works very well. We started out with the ideal of a softphone and have retraced sharply from it. A hardware sip phone is more expensive yet provides many benefits in usability and quality. Using analogue phones is great for users (as little changes) and the quality is fine although per port it is a more expensive route than a hardware sip phone, certainly at the lower end. Maybe I'll be shot down in flames but that is certainly how it has panned out for us. All the best, Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:21 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Phones Hello all, I am a newbie to this list - and so far very impressed with the functionality of Asterisk. So far I have setup a simple soft phone running on a windows PC making calls to other SIP soft phones. Later this week I hope to get UK ISDN2e up and running with it! My question is I would like the experience and feedback from users about what equipment/software you are all using for phones to connect to Asterisk, so fat I have been playing with xten soft phone which works very well but before I make my decision on which phones to use would like the feedback of the group. Regards Nick _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
