Hello-- I've been asked an interesting question, and I'm too ignorant to answer it authoritatively (yet). Can anyone help me?
Question: If I'm going to implement a somewhat small (10-80) phone system, and I have a choice of using VOIP phoneset (like SNOM or Grandstream or Cisco, etc), vs. cheap analog touch-tone phones, exactly what features will I kiss goodbye if I use the cheap analogs? In other words, what features will a (more expensive) VOIP phoneset provide, that the analog won't? I know already that asterisk will give me these features with just plain analog phones (&zaptel cards, of course): Voice mail, park & retrieve & MOH, transfer, agents, and a few others. And, if you get an analog with a CID built in, you could have that, too? (Haven't tried that yet). What is the justification for VOIP? just total cost reductions (if the phone is cheap enough?)? Or are there some nicenesses that only VOIPs can supply? murf _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
