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

Tue Mar 10 00:30:49 MSK 2015

Looks like the Fanvil phones have the same underlying issue as the Yealinks unfortunately - # of sip accounts limited 
significantly below # of buttons.

-- Nathan

On 03/09/2015 02:43 PM, Brian West wrote:
> The Fanvil phones are cheap and usable.
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Tim St. Pierre <fs-list at communicatefreely.net <mailto: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>
>      > <mailto: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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