[olug] Which Asterisk?

[Kenny Kant]

umm lookig to sell a Cisco phone ?? Did I read that right??  I am in the
market for a Cisco phone if you or anyone else has any..  I need one for
study lab :)

Kenny <--- Asterisk fan too ;)



On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 23:16 -0500, Neal R wrote:
> How much are the Polycom? I've got probably a dozen Cisco phones if
> I start digging and Ebay still wants 'em.
> 
> 
> 
> Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > Luke-Jr wrote:
> >   
> >> In my experience, Cisco stuff is generally "looks nice, has a huge reputation, 
> >> but sucks a lot in reality"-- especially when it comes to their phones. The 
> >> SIP firmware tends to be the "we make it because we have to" and doesn't get 
> >> the attention that the SCCP firmware does.
> >>     
> >
> > When it comes to SIP phones Cisco is bottom of the barrel and is only
> > barely better than a bare-bones Grandstream, the only reason people use
> > Cisco 7940 and 7960 phones is Cisco's reputation for equipment that
> > largely doesn't suck.
> >
> > Of course, you need get past the proprietary nature of their
> > interoperability protocols (spanning trees, link aggregation groups,
> > etc) first.
> >
> > Me? Bitter about Cisco?  Naaaah
> >
> >   
> >> That said, at work we use only Cisco IP phones (and I'm the one stuck 
> >> supporting them). So I can't comment on Snom or other products-- for all I 
> >> know they could be even worse, but I tend to doubt it.
> >>     
> >
> > You might be surprised how much a lot of VoIP stuff sucks.
> >
> > That's why I suggested Polycom - I know they *don't* suck, and one
> > absolutely MUST HAVE feature on the Asterisk box at work (intercom aka
> > paging) works gracefully with Polycom and a very small list of others.
> >
> > PS I LOATH Asterisk. I miss our old Nortel BCM, it expensive and
> > complicated to set up but at least the features it supports works
> > reliably - with Asterisk call forwarding absolutely CANNOT be used in
> > conjunction with paging (Asterisk speak: intercom) or hunt groups
> > (Asterisk speak: ring groups).
> >
> >   
> 
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