Have to agree with all the recommendations for Aastra - we have a large
number of them installed at various clients.
I have not, been impressed with their newer line of
phones, the 5xi series. They look good, but have a number of quirks. On
the newer line
- They do not have dedicated Transfer / Conference buttons. These have
to be programmed and take up some of the available programmable buttons.
- On the larger ones (55/57), they use soft buttons for these functions,
which disappear if you have a multiple incoming calls.
- The placement of the soft buttons move depending on the action of the
phone at the time.
- We've had a myriad of acknowledged issues with the 57i and sidecars
(although the latest firmware is supposed to fix it).
We've also deployed a fair number of Snom 360 phones - some people like
them, some not.
One last comment - some clients who are hard of hearing preferred the
Aastra over the Snom's
HTH
Martin
Keith Major | Aquarius Telecom Inc. wrote:
My recommendation is Aastra; it's the same as Nortel and they work verywell
with Asterisk. Also, more businesses are familiar with Aastra/Nortel phones
so, the user experience and migration to VoIP is much easier. The pricing
is also attractive for the 9133i at the moment.
K Major
Business Development Manager
Aquarius Telecom Inc.
www.aquariustel.com
416.800.0833 ext. 2005
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From: Paul Nash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: January 7, 2008 9:54 AM
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Cc: asterisk biz
Subject: [biz] SIP handset recommendations
Hi
I'm looking for recommendations for handsets for a small office (10 -
15 people). The currently have a mix of Grandstream 102's (too
fragile for their staff) and Linksys SPA 921's (work fine).
The problem with the Linksys is that they find the menus confusing
(call hold, conference, etc) and lose the cheat-sheets that I stick up
next to the phones.
I am currently looking at a multi-line Linksys, Polycom, snom or
Aastra. Budget is about $200/handset (preferrably cheaper). Devices
need PoE, only need a single ether port.
I am looking for recommendations based on ease of use, voice quality,
reliability, robustness.
Any recommendations or horror stories welcome. Don't mind whether
they come from vendors (cross-posted to biz) or end users or
integrators or ...
Thanks in advance
paul
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