On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote: > Can anyone who has used both comment on the pros and cons ? Need to buy > about 30 of these, for a small company with limited IT support.
You get more phone for your money with the Grandstream, but ... You'll hear a lot of people here who've had bad results with them in the past, so will be baised against them, and there were early issues with software quality - and still some issues with newer software on holder handsets, however ... I've deployed a lot of Grandstreams - 100's. Mostly GXP2000s but one place (a small school on a tight budget) went for BT200's with a single GXP2000 for the reception and they're happy. If budget was that tight, I'd look at the GXP280's though. Audio quality in the Snoms is probably better. Build quality is a little better too - the handsets are slightly heavier. I find call transfers easier on the Grandstreams - also the display (on the GXP range) is much bigger than that Snom 300's. That's nice if you're putting up number->names. The web interface on both is easy enough if you're not auto provisioning. (I don't auto provision the grandstreams as such, but use a utility called 'gsutil' on them) However, while it's very comprehensive, I think there's too much information there! Well - that's my input... (mostly on Grandstreams though!) Gordon _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
