I'd second the recommendation to stay away from Cisco's junk. Regards, Ben Langfeld On 4 July 2012 08:00, Campbell Steven <casteven@gmail.com> wrote:
I would strongly suggest the old Cisco is a bad choice, I have alot of uptime with those handsets on alternative platforms, I say alternative as really they are just designed to work with Call Manager. If you had to pick from the bunch you suggested I would probably pick the SPA-942, not that it's a great phone but it's the best of that average lot. The reasons I would pick it:
-Full web UI that you can configure pretty much everything without having to resort to provisioning straight up -BLF support (useful to have and the Cisco 7960 doesn't, under SIP anyway) -Ability to centrally provision if you so desire in the future -Can register 4 SIP accounts -Can do Broadsoft SLA -802.3af PoE (unlike the 7960 which is pre-standard)
Normally I'd be pushing Polycom as well, but the 501 was getting old when the 942 brand new...
Campbell
On 4 July 2012 18:01, Todd Bailey <toddb@toddbailey.net> wrote:
I'm going to purchase a Cisco 7960 from ebay for under $50 unless someone can tell me this is a bad idea. I watched several Utube videos where is was working on Asterisk. With the volumns of documentation and how to videos I think this is the better choice,
On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 10:13 -0700, Todd Bailey wrote:
Hi All,
New to this tech and a bit confused on what to buy/features etc.
I'm looking for a basic desk phone, perhaps with a few speed dial and maybe gee-wiz buttons. I found this one with a decent price 3Com NBX 1102 but the ad states Requires R4.X system software or greater. Not sure what this is nor do I need to?
If I buy "any" digital phone that has a rj-45 ethernet jack does that automatically mean it's compatible?
other models in my price/feature range
Cisco CP-7940G Unified IP Phone
I was looking at a few grand stream models but the reviews lead me to move on
thanks
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