Unfortunately this is not an easy question to reply. You have 4 options of non proprietary IP Phones nowadays (at least). MGCP (Skinny), H.323, IAX2 and SIP. SIP is the most widely used protocol nowadays and pretty much any SIP IP Phone available nowadays on the market will work with FreeSWITCH. If you are looking for more advanced stuff, then you're in trouble and you have to know your stuff to make a informed decision. SIP is a not just a simple standard but rather a miryad of RFCs, each one suggesting a new feature with and it's implementations depends on the manufacturer understanding of each. Yes, interop is a btich, but at least there is no such thing as a proprietary digital phone nowadays, uh? Hope that helps. -- João Mesquita Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Todd Bailey wrote:
My question is evolving into not who but what.
It it safe to say any phone marketed as a 'IP Phone' will work or are there gotchas that I need to know about ?
On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 12:48 -0700, Todd Bailey wrote:
Thanks for the info but well beyond my price range. The 3com is cheap and probably due to being tied to the specific pbx package.
The Cisco has good reviews but the display isn't back lit, making use in a dark room problematic.
The used GrandStream models are affordable but from what I read suffer from poor audio.
I rapidly running out of options here, any one else care to jump in?
On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 14:22 -0400, Roger Castaldo wrote:
I have had good success with snom phones and they are solid for the price
On Jul 3, 2012 12:36 PM, "Todd Bailey" <toddb@toddbailey.net (mailto:toddb@toddbailey.net)> 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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