Ah.... That makes sense. Thanks for pointing that out.
I'm so used to thinking of phone as bricks with a wire and handset and some stress relief buttons. :)
Your other post about the ATA adapters is dead-on. Multi-line display and friends (address book etc) are invaluable.
I thought about going soft-phone. But I'm not sure I trust our windows systems that much. We still have a couple of applications that have us hogtied to windows. Evil UPS OnlineWorldship is one such poorly written application. Ironic that UPS uses Unix on the backend but won't support it for clients. I have about 8 Win9x machines because of that issue.
I'm eyeing a flight from Exchange/Outlook later this year.
And our graphics stuff is all Windows/Adobe based.
I guess the thing with soft-phones is that I'm not sure how stable the machines are. It's bad enough to lose your phone or your computer, but both at once is really spooky. ;)
On a bright note, we have gigabit everywhere in the building. So QOS
and bandwidth had better not be an issue internally. :)
Brian Greul Texas Shirt Company www.txshirts.com 713-802-0369 / 713-861-6261 (fax)
Brian,
You really, really want to get SIP phones. Softphones (Windows, PC hardware) just do not have the quality and reliability that dedicated hardware SIP phones do.
If your windows computers go down with the latest worm, you won't even be able to call someone to ask for help or answer the phone when customers start complaining. It's really pretty obvious here.
Also, I am a big Polycom fan. The three phones that you would look at are very rich in features, and range from $115 - $255. Getting one brand really makes things easier, and Cisco sure doesn't offer anything for $115. The 7960 does not have one feature (I know of) that the Polycom IP 600 ($255) does not have. The Polycom's work better for paging, intercom, presence, conferencing, and more. The 7960's seem to be running off of brand recognition. Don't get me wrong, they are excellent phones, but I feel that they just don't compete with the Polycom offering in features. Think of it this way: Polycom is like Avis - They try harder.
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