[olug] Which Asterisk?

Neal R neal at lists.rauhauser.net
Tue Jun 26 14:26:09 UTC 2007



People are fooling around so Ebay  is getting it all :-(


Kenny Kant wrote:
> 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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