<div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Brian West <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:brian@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">brian@freeswitch.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Nathan Neulinger <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:nneul@mst.edu" target="_blank">nneul@mst.edu</a>&gt;</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><br>
On 03/09/2015 02:43 PM, Brian West wrote:<br>
&gt; The Fanvil phones are cheap and usable.<br>
&gt;<br>
</span>&gt; On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Tim St. Pierre &lt;<a href="mailto:fs-list@communicatefreely.net" target="_blank">fs-list@communicatefreely.net</a> &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:fs-list@communicatefreely.net" target="_blank">fs-list@communicatefreely.net</a>&gt;&gt;<br>
<span>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     Hello,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     Just saw this.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     If you are still looking, the Aastra / Mitel 6800 series can do<br>
&gt;     something like 20 SIP accounts, and you can put line keys on the<br>
&gt;     expansion modules.  I&#39;m not sure if that is enough, but if it can cover<br>
&gt;     you for the transition, that might get you by.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     -Tim<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     On 2015-01-25 05:13 PM, Michael Collins wrote:<br>
&gt;     &gt;<br>
&gt;     &gt;<br>
&gt;     &gt; On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Nathan Neulinger &lt;<a href="mailto:nneul@mst.edu" target="_blank">nneul@mst.edu</a> &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:nneul@mst.edu" target="_blank">nneul@mst.edu</a>&gt;<br>
</span><div><div>&gt;      &gt; &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:nneul@mst.edu" target="_blank">nneul@mst.edu</a> &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:nneul@mst.edu" target="_blank">nneul@mst.edu</a>&gt;&gt;&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt;     Personally I think it&#39;s nuts... but we have a number of<br>
&gt;      &gt;     secretary/admin/receptionist users with Cisco expansion modules<br>
&gt;      &gt;     that have the shared lines of all of the people in their department<br>
&gt;      &gt;     on them. (i.e. a 7940/7960 plus the module). Usually<br>
&gt;      &gt;     with some portion of the other lines set to just flash and not<br>
&gt;      &gt;     audibly ring. While I&#39;d expect that in most cases they<br>
&gt;      &gt;     really would be sufficient with busy lamp, sometimes they do use it<br>
&gt;      &gt;     to answer arbitrary calls for faculty that are out<br>
&gt;      &gt;     of the office/etc.<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt;     With the transitioned cisco phones on FS/mod_skinny - it works the<br>
&gt;      &gt;     same way, however we&#39;re wanting to position ourselves<br>
&gt;      &gt;     with suitable replacements, particularly for any departments that<br>
&gt;      &gt;     want more than bare bones functionality.<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt;     With the polycom phones, it appears to also work that way where you<br>
&gt;      &gt;     can have a sip account for every line key if you<br>
&gt;      &gt;     want - even including the expansion modules.<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt;     However, on the Yealink phones (got looking at them cause of the<br>
&gt;      &gt;     T46G I won at ClueCon) we found the number of accounts<br>
&gt;      &gt;     very limited.<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt;     It turns out that with the latest firmware (73.x) on the Yealink<br>
&gt;      &gt;     units the count is increased on a number of the models<br>
&gt;      &gt;     (to 16 on the T46 for example). The problem is that with the middle<br>
&gt;      &gt;     tier ones that you&#39;d add an expansion module to - it<br>
&gt;      &gt;     doesn&#39;t really get you anything. If your base phone is limited to 6<br>
&gt;      &gt;     accounts, adding the expansion module ONLY gets you<br>
&gt;      &gt;     busy-lamp or speed dials.<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt;     We&#39;re working on getting the users &quot;converted&quot; to not using full<br>
&gt;      &gt;     lines wherever possible, but still want options open.<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt;     -- Nathan<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt; Thanks for the explanation. I share your feelings about the T46. I love<br>
&gt;      &gt; that phone but hate the fact that you only get 6 SIP accounts. (Glad to<br>
&gt;      &gt; hear that they added more in a recent firmware - I&#39;ll test that out at<br>
&gt;      &gt; some point...)<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt; If you find a solution other than the Cisco one I would be interested in<br>
&gt;      &gt; hearing about it.<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
&gt;      &gt; Thanks,<br>
&gt;      &gt; Michael<br>
&gt;      &gt;<br>
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