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

[Brian West]

The Fanvil phones are cheap and usable.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Tim St. Pierre <
fs-list at communicatefreely.net> wrote:

> 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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