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

Tue Mar 10 04:28:21 MSK 2015

Buttons, WHO needs buttons, you have two ears and one mouth, till that
condition changes and people start sprouting more mouths and ears I suspect
a low button count is sufficient.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu> wrote:

> 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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