<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Nathan Neulinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nneul@mst.edu" target="_blank">nneul@mst.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Personally I think it's nuts... but we have a number of secretary/admin/receptionist users with Cisco expansion modules<br>
that have the shared lines of all of the people in their department on them. (i.e. a 7940/7960 plus the module). Usually<br>
with some portion of the other lines set to just flash and not audibly ring. While I'd expect that in most cases they<br>
really would be sufficient with busy lamp, sometimes they do use it to answer arbitrary calls for faculty that are out<br>
of the office/etc.<br>
<br>
With the transitioned cisco phones on FS/mod_skinny - it works the same way, however we're wanting to position ourselves<br>
with suitable replacements, particularly for any departments that want more than bare bones functionality.<br>
<br>
With the polycom phones, it appears to also work that way where you can have a sip account for every line key if you<br>
want - even including the expansion modules.<br>
<br>
However, on the Yealink phones (got looking at them cause of the T46G I won at ClueCon) we found the number of accounts<br>
very limited.<br>
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It turns out that with the latest firmware (73.x) on the Yealink units the count is increased on a number of the models<br>
(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<br>
doesn't really get you anything. If your base phone is limited to 6 accounts, adding the expansion module ONLY gets you<br>
busy-lamp or speed dials.<br>
<br>
We're working on getting the users "converted" to not using full lines wherever possible, but still want options open.<br>
<br>
-- Nathan<br>
<span class=""></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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...)<br><br></div><div>If you find a solution other than the Cisco one I would be interested in hearing about it.<br><br>Thanks,<br></div><div>Michael <br></div></div></div></div>