Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
We use Linksys/Sipura phones, and do mass provisioning via tftp and http. There is no need for a compiler for the SPA-841, 941, 942, 3000, or 2000 phones at least; I don't have direct experience with others. We feed a raw XML configuration file to the phone via a cgi-bin script which receives the MAC address as a form parameter, and all is well with the world. I posted our experiences on voip-info.org, here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/sipura+mass+deployment We've had our deployment system in place almost totally unchanged for the last 18 months or so with no real problems. The only thing I find slightly less than optimal is that for major configuration changes, the phones seem to need a factory reset to pick up the changes in a timely manner. Alan Ferrency On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, George Pajari wrote: Aastra are a delight -- no need for a compiler (like the Grandstream and Linksys phones) -- and extremely well documented configuration files. -- George Pajari, netVOICE communications604 484 VOIP (484 8647 x102) Open Source VoIP/Telephony Specialists 1 877 NET VOIP (638 8647 x102) www.netvoice.ca www.ip-centrex.ca www.digium.ca www.grandstream.ca www.sipura.ca www.snom.ca ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
Aastra are a delight -- no need for a compiler (like the Grandstream and Linksys phones) -- and extremely well documented configuration files. -- George Pajari, netVOICE communications604 484 VOIP (484 8647 x102) Open Source VoIP/Telephony Specialists 1 877 NET VOIP (638 8647 x102) www.netvoice.ca www.ip-centrex.ca www.digium.ca www.grandstream.ca www.sipura.ca www.snom.ca ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, George Pajari wrote: Aastra are a delight -- no need for a compiler (like the Grandstream and Linksys phones) -- and extremely well documented configuration files. While I agree that Grandstream phones might not be the easiest things in the world, I did find this recently: http://www.pkts.ca/gsutil.shtml and initial results look very promising... Gordon ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
MF wrote: Best and easiest provisioning I´ve found imho is Snom, great web interfase , followed by Polycom (web interfase used to be poor and slow, but once you set it up, works very well) Polycoms are great if you use the cfg files over tftp. -s ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
ci$co phones are definitively not good choice if you would like to use with anything other than callmanager as signaling server (especially true for new models 7911/41/61/70) Michelle Dupuis wrote: We used Aastra's for a good while, but gave up on them (and switched to Cisco). Aastra's seem cheaper up front (hardware costs), but the time wasted chasing firmware bugs, lack of documentation, and poor support quickly eat up any savings. (unless your needs are very basic). MD *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dovid B *Sent:* Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:21 AM *To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning I liked polycom a lot. - Original Message - *From:* Rod Bacon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* asterisk-users@lists.digium.com mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com *Sent:* Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:45 AM *Subject:* [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I’ve used CISCO 79XX phones, and they’re great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au http://www.jasco.net.au/ Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
I know Brett and Jurgen have been pretty happy with the Snom's - Brett even wrote an auto-provision utility for the Snom's at one time. later, PaulH On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 19:45 +1100, Rod Bacon wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I’ve used CISCO 79XX phones, and they’re great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
Paul Hales wrote: I know Brett and Jurgen have been pretty happy with the Snom's - Brett even wrote an auto-provision utility for the Snom's at one time. Yes, look at the latest Trixbox for the basic SNOM templates and then off you go. You setup a tftp server (easy), the phone looks for two files, one generic snom file and another with it's MAC address in the name. So you have generic stuff in one file and specific phone stuff in the other. You can get the initial phone config done using DHCP, or just log into each phone and change the URL to point to your tftp server. Get the phone roughly setup manually and then simply look at the web config utility, it has an option to dump it's entire config out and so you just cut and paste the entries you want to override into the tftp files. Piece of cake. You can easily reboot all the phones by sending them a certain SIP message, and so it's very easy to redeploy a new config, or reboot all the phones when you reboot the server. The phones themselves re-read the config every X minutes so they pickup new config quickly even without a reboot. I have a bunch of 360s which I negotiated for about the same price as the 320s. Drop me a line if you want the name of a UK firm to buy them from. They work nicely out of the box including the flashy lights showing busy extensions. The only thing which doesn't work without a patch (it appears) is line pickup by pushing the BLF keys. I can live without that, but it would be nice to have. Happy to post my configs if anyone wants to write up the notes on the wiki? Ed ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm using a Thomason ST2030. Had difficulties in the beginning, but after a firmware upgrade it works fine. And autoprovisioning works good. Most of the parameters are described in their official (marked as confidential) admin documentation from their website. Even a centralized phonebook is possible. Chris... Rod Bacon schrieb: Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, and they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au http://www.jasco.net.au/ Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users - -- Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Krenn - IT-Beratung Franz-Josef-Strasse 33/4/43, 5020 Salzburg Tel: +43 662 879512 Fax: +43 662 875960 IP-Tel: +43 780 kkrenn (557366) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sip: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFyvypR0exH8dhr/YRAiS9AJ0ZSsvRAEaxxLkK6Qqdt6imLml8UwCeOpek YO65eWK78s7X6RfrC2uf6Po= =6yTR -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
Hi, We are using following phones for large deployments using auto-provisioning. Grandstream phones (full range) Snom Phones (full range) Aastra Phone (full range) UTstarcom (Wifi phones) ~Ahsan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Fürstaller Sent: 08 February 2007 10:34 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm using a Thomason ST2030. Had difficulties in the beginning, but after a firmware upgrade it works fine. And autoprovisioning works good. Most of the parameters are described in their official (marked as confidential) admin documentation from their website. Even a centralized phonebook is possible. Chris... Rod Bacon schrieb: Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, and they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au http://www.jasco.net.au/ Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users - -- Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Krenn - IT-Beratung Franz-Josef-Strasse 33/4/43, 5020 Salzburg Tel: +43 662 879512 Fax: +43 662 875960 IP-Tel: +43 780 kkrenn (557366) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sip: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFyvypR0exH8dhr/YRAiS9AJ0ZSsvRAEaxxLkK6Qqdt6imLml8UwCeOpek YO65eWK78s7X6RfrC2uf6Po= =6yTR -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
Chris, (or others), do you have any negative experience with Thomson 2030? it looks very promising! I hesitate between thomson and linksys spa 922/942, I'm not sure, what is better for bussines use :-\ snoms are probably also good, but functionality/price ratio is, imho, better for thomson or linksys... PJ Hi, I'm using a Thomason ST2030. Had difficulties in the beginning, but after a firmware upgrade it works fine. And autoprovisioning works good. Most of the parameters are described in their official (marked as confidential) admin documentation from their website. Even a centralized phonebook is possible. Chris... ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
We Use both Grandstream and Aastra phones Some simple scripts improve the Grandstream configuration ease of use but the Aastras use a straight text file and are much better documented. regards, Drew Ahsan Masood wrote: Hi, We are using following phones for large deployments using auto-provisioning. Grandstream phones (full range) Snom Phones (full range) Aastra Phone (full range) UTstarcom (Wifi phones) ~Ahsan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Fürstaller Sent: 08 February 2007 10:34 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm using a Thomason ST2030. Had difficulties in the beginning, but after a firmware upgrade it works fine. And autoprovisioning works good. Most of the parameters are described in their official (marked as confidential) admin documentation from their website. Even a centralized phonebook is possible. Chris... Rod Bacon schrieb: Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, and they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au http://www.jasco.net.au/ Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users - -- Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Krenn - IT-Beratung Franz-Josef-Strasse 33/4/43, 5020 Salzburg Tel: +43 662 879512 Fax: +43 662 875960 IP-Tel: +43 780 kkrenn (557366) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sip: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFyvypR0exH8dhr/YRAiS9AJ0ZSsvRAEaxxLkK6Qqdt6imLml8UwCeOpek YO65eWK78s7X6RfrC2uf6Po= =6yTR -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Drew Gibson Systems Administrator OANDA Corporation 416-593-6767 x322 www.oanda.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
I liked polycom a lot. - Original Message - From: Rod Bacon To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:45 AM Subject: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, and they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 -- ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
Best and easiest provisioning I´ve found imho is Snom, great web interfase , followed by Polycom (web interfase used to be poor and slow, but once you set it up, works very well) Dovid B escribió: I liked polycom a lot. - Original Message - *From:* Rod Bacon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* asterisk-users@lists.digium.com mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com *Sent:* Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:45 AM *Subject:* [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I’ve used CISCO 79XX phones, and they’re great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au http://www.jasco.net.au/ Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
Dovid B wrote: I liked polycom a lot. - Original Message - *From:* Rod Bacon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* asterisk-users@lists.digium.com mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com *Sent:* Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:45 AM *Subject:* [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I’ve used CISCO 79XX phones, and they’re great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Aastra phones are pretty nice for central configuration. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
great i join you Thomson ST is a good choice, also you can see linksys ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
really you can't make a difference between them, i like thomson 2007/2/8, Pavel Jezek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris, (or others), do you have any negative experience with Thomson 2030? it looks very promising! I hesitate between thomson and linksys spa 922/942, I'm not sure, what is better for bussines use :-\ snoms are probably also good, but functionality/price ratio is, imho, better for thomson or linksys... PJ Hi, I'm using a Thomason ST2030. Had difficulties in the beginning, but after a firmware upgrade it works fine. And autoprovisioning works good. Most of the parameters are described in their official (marked as confidential) admin documentation from their website. Even a centralized phonebook is possible. Chris... ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
for massive deployment phone provisioning/fw updating through web interface is not optimal, best way is via config files/templates periodicaly downloaded from central tftp/http server... PJ MF wrote: Best and easiest provisioning I´ve found imho is Snom, great web interfase , followed by Polycom (web interfase used to be poor and slow, but once you set it up, works very well) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
We used Aastra's for a good while, but gave up on them (and switched to Cisco). Aastra's seem cheaper up front (hardware costs), but the time wasted chasing firmware bugs, lack of documentation, and poor support quickly eat up any savings. (unless your needs are very basic). MD _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dovid B Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:21 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning I liked polycom a lot. - Original Message - From: Rod Bacon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:45 AM Subject: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, and they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au/ http://www.jasco.net.au Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 _ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
I can only speak for Aastra phones. Central provisioning is very easy. All you need is one simple text file on a TFTP, FTP, or HTTP server which all the phones point to. To customize individual phones you add a second text file for each phone you want customized. The custom text file is given the name of the phones MAC address. When the phone reboots it first reads the general text file and then reads it's custom file which will overwrite any duplicate setting in the general text file. To remotely reconfigure and reboot phones you can configure them to check for updates to these files or for updated firmware at a certain time of day. You can also remotely reboot individual phones based on extension from the Asterisk CLI. Of course, you can also access an individual phones Webpage configuration based on it's IP address. _ From: Rod Bacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:46 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, and they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au/ http://www.jasco.net.au Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
I can only speak for Aastra phones. Central provisioning is very easy. All you need is one simple text file on a TFTP, FTP, or HTTP server which all the phones point to. To customize individual phones you add a second text file for each phone you want customized. The custom text file is given the name of the phones MAC address. When the phone reboots it first reads the general text file and then reads it's custom file which will overwrite any duplicate setting in the general text file. To remotely reconfigure and reboot phones you can configure them to check for updates to these files or for updated firmware at a certain time of day. You can also remotely reboot individual phones based on extension from the Asterisk CLI. Of course, you can also access an individual phones Webpage configuration based on it's IP address. From: Rod Bacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:46 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I’ve used CISCO 79XX phones, and they’re great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 Polycom's central provisioning is very straight forward and very powerful. There is support for all major connectivity methods (tftp, ftp, ftps, http, https, etc) and the configuration capability is more broad than any other phone we have worked with. I hope this information is helpful. Bryan M. Johns Partner Shelton | Johns Technology Group office: 678:248:2637 x:1500 direct: 678:229:1809 iaxtel: 700:248:2637 x:1500 http://www.sheltonjohns.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning
Have you tried them lately??? Firmware and documentation is light years ahead of where it was a year ago! NONE of your issues are issues any more IMHO. _ From: Michelle Dupuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:00 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning We used Aastra's for a good while, but gave up on them (and switched to Cisco). Aastra's seem cheaper up front (hardware costs), but the time wasted chasing firmware bugs, lack of documentation, and poor support quickly eat up any savings. (unless your needs are very basic). MD _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dovid B Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:21 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning I liked polycom a lot. - Original Message - From: Rod Bacon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:45 AM Subject: [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I've used CISCO 79XX phones, and they're great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option? Rod Bacon Technical Manager JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd. http://www.jasco.net.au/ http://www.jasco.net.au Ph. 03 9432 6376 Fax: 03 9432 6378 _ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
