[Freeswitch-users] Fs compatible phones?

[Ben Langfeld]

I'd second the recommendation to stay away from Cisco's junk.

Regards,
Ben Langfeld


On 4 July 2012 08:00, Campbell Steven <casteven at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would strongly suggest the old Cisco is a bad choice, I have alot of
> uptime with those handsets on alternative platforms, I say alternative
> as really they are just designed to work with Call Manager. If you had
> to pick from the bunch you suggested I would probably pick the
> SPA-942, not that it's a great phone but it's the best of that average
> lot. The reasons I would pick it:
>
> -Full web UI that you can configure pretty much everything without
> having to resort to provisioning straight up
> -BLF support (useful to have and the Cisco 7960 doesn't, under SIP anyway)
> -Ability to centrally provision if you so desire in the future
> -Can register 4 SIP accounts
> -Can do Broadsoft SLA
> -802.3af PoE (unlike the 7960 which is pre-standard)
>
> Normally I'd be pushing Polycom as well, but the 501 was getting old
> when the 942 brand new...
>
> Campbell
>
> On 4 July 2012 18:01, Todd Bailey <toddb at toddbailey.net> wrote:
>> I'm going to purchase a Cisco 7960 from ebay for under $50 unless
>> someone can tell me this is a bad idea.  I watched several Utube videos
>> where is was working on Asterisk. With the volumns of documentation and
>> how to videos I think this is the better choice,
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 10:13 -0700, Todd Bailey wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> New to this tech and a bit confused on what to buy/features etc.
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a basic desk phone, perhaps with a few speed dial and
>>> maybe gee-wiz buttons. I found this one with a decent price 3Com NBX
>>> 1102 but the ad states Requires R4.X system software or greater.   Not
>>> sure what this is nor do I need to?
>>>
>>> If I buy "any" digital phone that has a rj-45 ethernet jack  does that
>>> automatically mean it's compatible?
>>>
>>>
>>> other models in my price/feature range
>>>
>>>       Cisco CP-7940G Unified IP Phone
>>>
>>> I was looking at a few grand stream models but the reviews lead me to
>>> move on
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _________________________________________________________________________
>>> Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
>>> consulting at freeswitch.org
>>> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
>>>
>>> 
>>> 
>>>
>>> Official FreeSWITCH Sites
>>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org
>>> http://www.cluecon.com
>>>
>>> Join Us At ClueCon - Aug 7-9, 2012
>>>
>>> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
>>> FreeSWITCH-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users
>>> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users
>>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _________________________________________________________________________
>> Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
>> consulting at freeswitch.org
>> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
>>
>> 
>> 
>>
>> Official FreeSWITCH Sites
>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org
>> http://www.cluecon.com
>>
>> Join Us At ClueCon - Aug 7-9, 2012
>>
>> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
>> FreeSWITCH-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users
>> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users
>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
> consulting at freeswitch.org
> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
>
> 
> 
>
> Official FreeSWITCH Sites
> http://www.freeswitch.org
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org
> http://www.cluecon.com
>
> Join Us At ClueCon - Aug 7-9, 2012
>
> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
> FreeSWITCH-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users
> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users
> http://www.freeswitch.org