I don't know of a local vendor for voip phones; Insight is in town but they have warehouses all over the place. I ended up getting set up as a dealer for a distributor and just order the hardware when I need it. Prices fluctuate a lot so I while I do have phones to demo with I don't keep any stock on them. Ebay has a lot of the phones/ATAs also from all the companies going out of business. JD On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:24 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, gm5729 wrote: > > I put together my own voip tis past weekend. After looking at like 4-5 >> FOSS websites. I was honestly more confused then when I started looking >> around. Everything to me looked like stuff for call centers. I just want a >> simple phone. >> > > On my list, the Grandstream BT-201 and the -102 are each a conventional > looking black telephone with some feature butons and lights, look like a > 'desk keyset' in an office, but with the property that instead of running > back to a local phone controller usually over CAT-3 cabling, these units are > assigned an IP, and connected through a RJ-45 ethernet connection, and > routed like any other computer device. Call control signals, voice data, > and other signals (think: hold buttons, and message waiting lights) are > manageable through SIP to a central Freeswitch or Asterisk 'PBX' which need > not be on site > > The rest of the units I mentioned are ATA -- analog telephone adapters, > exporting FXS and FXO -- subscriber, and central office type lines, > respectively -- which a plain old 'dumb' POTS phone's RJ-11 may be plugged > > -- Russ herrold > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- JD Austin Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC jd@twingeckos.com Voice: 480.288.8195x201 Fax: 480.406.6753 http://www.twingeckos.com