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

Tue Mar 10 05:42:40 MSK 2015

I guess for the use case that Nathan has described, a software-based
switchboard would be sufficient. The receptionist needs to know the line
for which the inbound call is ringing, and busy/available status of other
lines. So, a tablet with big enough touch screen would do the job, and the
SIP handset would be just any standard phone.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:

> 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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