[Freeswitch-users] any handset recommendations that operate like polycom+cisco?

[Tim St. Pierre]

Hello,

Just saw this.

If you are still looking, the Aastra / Mitel 6800 series can do 
something like 20 SIP accounts, and you can put line keys on the 
expansion modules.  I'm not sure if that is enough, but if it can cover 
you for the transition, that might get you by.

-Tim



On 2015-01-25 05:13 PM, Michael Collins wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu
> <mailto:nneul at mst.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Personally I think it's nuts... but we have a number of
>     secretary/admin/receptionist users with Cisco expansion modules
>     that have the shared lines of all of the people in their department
>     on them. (i.e. a 7940/7960 plus the module). Usually
>     with some portion of the other lines set to just flash and not
>     audibly ring. While I'd expect that in most cases they
>     really would be sufficient with busy lamp, sometimes they do use it
>     to answer arbitrary calls for faculty that are out
>     of the office/etc.
>
>     With the transitioned cisco phones on FS/mod_skinny - it works the
>     same way, however we're wanting to position ourselves
>     with suitable replacements, particularly for any departments that
>     want more than bare bones functionality.
>
>     With the polycom phones, it appears to also work that way where you
>     can have a sip account for every line key if you
>     want - even including the expansion modules.
>
>     However, on the Yealink phones (got looking at them cause of the
>     T46G I won at ClueCon) we found the number of accounts
>     very limited.
>
>     It turns out that with the latest firmware (73.x) on the Yealink
>     units the count is increased on a number of the models
>     (to 16 on the T46 for example). The problem is that with the middle
>     tier ones that you'd add an expansion module to - it
>     doesn't really get you anything. If your base phone is limited to 6
>     accounts, adding the expansion module ONLY gets you
>     busy-lamp or speed dials.
>
>     We're working on getting the users "converted" to not using full
>     lines wherever possible, but still want options open.
>
>     -- Nathan
>
>
> Thanks for the explanation. I share your feelings about the T46. I love
> that phone but hate the fact that you only get 6 SIP accounts. (Glad to
> hear that they added more in a recent firmware - I'll test that out at
> some point...)
>
> If you find a solution other than the Cisco one I would be interested in
> hearing about it.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
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