Personally I think it's nuts... but we have a number of secretary/admin/receptionist users with Cisco expansion modules that have the shared lines of all of the people in their department on them. (i.e. a 7940/7960 plus the module). Usually with some portion of the other lines set to just flash and not audibly ring. While I'd expect that in most cases they really would be sufficient with busy lamp, sometimes they do use it to answer arbitrary calls for faculty that are out of the office/etc. With the transitioned cisco phones on FS/mod_skinny - it works the same way, however we're wanting to position ourselves with suitable replacements, particularly for any departments that want more than bare bones functionality. With the polycom phones, it appears to also work that way where you can have a sip account for every line key if you want - even including the expansion modules. However, on the Yealink phones (got looking at them cause of the T46G I won at ClueCon) we found the number of accounts very limited. It turns out that with the latest firmware (73.x) on the Yealink units the count is increased on a number of the models (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 doesn't really get you anything. If your base phone is limited to 6 accounts, adding the expansion module ONLY gets you busy-lamp or speed dials. We're working on getting the users "converted" to not using full lines wherever possible, but still want options open. -- Nathan On 01/24/2015 01:30 PM, Michael Collins wrote:
Hi Nate,
Sorry for the late reply. Just curious - what is the application here? I'm curious what the person using this phone would be doing with dozens of SIP accounts. Alternatively, would something like Voice Operator Panel be a better choice, even though it's basically a soft-phone and not a hard phone?
Thanks, Michael
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul@mst.edu <mailto:nneul@mst.edu>> wrote:
Looking for any handset/desk phone recommendations that have the "every line key can be it's own SIP account, even on expansion modules" behavior.
Yealink units for example only allow a set number of lines, and the rest don't operate as line keys, so even though you can have a 30 + button phone, it's not usable for a receptionist or secretary that may handle calls for 15 different people with their own direct lines.
With the polycom and cisco (sccp) phones, you can define N different SIP accounts.
Are there any other phones out there that operate this way that anyone can recommend?
-- Nathan
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