[Freeswitch-users] any handset recommendations that operate like polycom+cisco?
Brian West
brian at freeswitch.org
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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