What phone is the best?
I'm sure this question has been asked in the past, but I would love to
see what you all think.
My Corp currently has around 250 Aastra 480i deployed, and we have
another 200 extensions that are waiting transition to Asterisk.
We like the 480i, however they are in a harsh retail environment that
covers Convenient Stores, Delis, Car Wash Offices and Bays, Car Detail
Shops, and Oil Lube Bays.
They have fared just "OK"
Cisco has approached us to deploy 7941G's with SIP at a decent price,
and for 30 dollars extra per phone, they will replace them"no matter
what", for three years.
The Catch is that they don't support Asterisk directly on the 7941G, so,
if I have any questions, they wont help. This is not to say they wont
sell them to us, knowing full well we want them for use with Asterisk,
however they just don't support the 79X1G series on anything but the new
SIP Cisco Call Manager just yet.
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However, Cisco DOES now FULLY support the 7940G on SIP with Asterisk_-
Yep, thats right.... and that is directly from Cisco TAC. However....
the catch is, as far as I can tell the 7940G is not POE compliant!!!!
So, its a rock and a hard place with Cisco. I like Cisco phones, and
hate the call manager.
Which brings me to my question- What do you all use?
I have heard good things about Polycom, and I like the few test units we
have, however the XML configs and SIP upgrade/ provisioning is a bear,
and I have heard that parts of Polycom's SIP Stack is unhappy with some
of the things Asterisk does with SIP, causing lockups.
Thoughts?
Matt
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