What I read on snom's website was the _currently_ only one sidecar
can be hooked up at a time. It sounds like they are working on
getting multiple sidecars chained together but have not got all of
the bugs worked out. I am kind of in the same boat. Our current
system offers 60 buttons on the sidecar. It is full but they already
don't have everybody. Talking to the receptionists (we have a split
office setup, one on each side of the building) they figure it would
not be hard for them to "remove" the extensions that are not used
very much to get the number down to the 54 currently allowed on the
snom phone. Particularly since it is a "short" term solution. I
expect either snom to get multiple sidecars working fairly soon or
polycom to get the issue with its 7-button limit figured out (or
Asterisk, as the case may be), and then be able to upgrade their
phones to an "unlimited" button phone.
And the price of the snom setup is not bad at all. $235 for the
phone and $140 for the expansion module = $375. Not a hard sell to
say that they may have to "toss" a $140 expansion module if they end
up going with a different solution later. The phone would still be
perfectly good.
Daniel
On Mar 28, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Bob McDowell wrote:
Very true. I am currently debating whether or not to offer it as an
option for my employer's system. As it currently stands, we do not
have
everyone's extensions on a button. With the snom 360 plus the
expansion
we still don't have them all. While I'm sure it would be 'better than
nothing' from my own point of view, it might also be setting up the
receptionist for a disappoint. As this system is new, I'm working
hard
to portray it as the 'limitless future', as opposed to the proprietary
and very limited system we were on before. The receptionist not
having
a sidecar is present my fault, due to lack of finding a good one.
Bob McDowell
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