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
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