We couldn't see anything about this on the Digium site, but maybe someone here can comment?
Do the new Digium phones provide good "teleworker" functionality? The benchmark we're comparing against is the capabilities of Mitel 3300 IP systems with Mitel 5330 IP phones (running their proprietary MINET protocol), specifically: a. A Mitel phone can be easily configured for teleworker mode (select TW mode and the IP of the gateway server). The phone reboots and it is ready to be used (once the Mitel border gateway is set to recognize the unit's ID, based on its MAC address, printed on the label on the back of the phone). If the phone gets reallocated back to a directly connected office environment, a simple reset procedure brings it back. b. You can plug in the phone virtually anywhere. It has a built-in tunnelling mechanism providing end-to-end encryption and is very tolerant of the network configuration, routers, NAT, etc. c. If the link between the phone and the gateway goes down, the phone will restore itself gracefully and automatically once the network function resumes. Absolutely hassle-free to the user. d. Users can be configured to have hot-desk functionality. The phone has a default extension assigned, but the user can be set up so that they can "log in" to their normal office extension number from wherever they are. Their office phone is automatically logged-out and goes to its default extension when you log in to a teleworker phone (you don't have to log out from it first). Your phone buttons, display settings, voicemail WMI and access, (everything) move to this new phone, and you can work from your home office, on the road, etc., and inbound and outbound calls work just like you were there in the office (callerid, etc). These four features would be a big selling point for us to consider moving our organization from Mitel to Digium/Asterisk/Switchvox. How much of this can be done with Asterisk/Switchvox and, say, the Digium D70 phone with dynamic button display? Thanks for all comments! -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
