<div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:30 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">Looks like the Fanvil phones have the same underlying issue as the Yealinks unfortunately - # of sip accounts limited<br>
significantly below # of buttons.<br>
<br>
-- Nathan<br>
<span class=""><br>
On 03/09/2015 02:43 PM, Brian West wrote:<br>
> The Fanvil phones are cheap and usable.<br>
><br>
</span>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Tim St. Pierre <<a href="mailto:fs-list@communicatefreely.net">fs-list@communicatefreely.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:fs-list@communicatefreely.net">fs-list@communicatefreely.net</a>>><br>
<span class="">> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> Just saw this.<br>
><br>
> If you are still looking, the Aastra / Mitel 6800 series can do<br>
> something like 20 SIP accounts, and you can put line keys on the<br>
> expansion modules. I'm not sure if that is enough, but if it can cover<br>
> you for the transition, that might get you by.<br>
><br>
> -Tim<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On 2015-01-25 05:13 PM, Michael Collins wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Nathan Neulinger <<a href="mailto:nneul@mst.edu">nneul@mst.edu</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:nneul@mst.edu">nneul@mst.edu</a>><br>
</span><div><div class="h5">> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:nneul@mst.edu">nneul@mst.edu</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:nneul@mst.edu">nneul@mst.edu</a>>>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > Personally I think it's nuts... but we have a number of<br>
> > secretary/admin/receptionist users with Cisco expansion modules<br>
> > that have the shared lines of all of the people in their department<br>
> > 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<br>
> > audibly ring. While I'd expect that in most cases they<br>
> > really would be sufficient with busy lamp, sometimes they do use it<br>
> > 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<br>
> > same way, however we're wanting to position ourselves<br>
> > with suitable replacements, particularly for any departments that<br>
> > want more than bare bones functionality.<br>
> ><br>
> > With the polycom phones, it appears to also work that way where you<br>
> > 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<br>
> > T46G I won at ClueCon) we found the number of accounts<br>
> > very limited.<br>
> ><br>
> > It turns out that with the latest firmware (73.x) on the Yealink<br>
> > 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<br>
> > 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<br>
> > 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<br>
> > lines wherever possible, but still want options open.<br>
> ><br>
> > -- Nathan<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks for the explanation. I share your feelings about the T46. I love<br>
> > that phone but hate the fact that you only get 6 SIP accounts. (Glad to<br>
> > hear that they added more in a recent firmware - I'll test that out at<br>
> > some point...)<br>
> ><br>
> > If you find a solution other than the Cisco one I would be interested in<br>
> > hearing about it.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
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