On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:01 PM, JD Austin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 18:26, JD Austin wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 17:46, Lisa Kachold wrote: >> >>> ... >>> >>> I don't see any benefit using Cisco phones over Polycom? It's nice to >>> have a well supported firmware also. >>> >> >> I agree! I've had a clients demand Cisco phones because it was 'what they >> knew they liked'. It was a trial by fire the first time to figure out how >> to make them work (registration and other issues at first) and I had to roll >> my own directory code but that wasn't that hard. >> >> Polycom makes great phones and so does Aastra. The main reason I like >> Aastra over Polycom isn't that their phones are better (they're on par with >> Polycom phones) but that they're much more asterisk savvy and way more >> approachable (I'm nobody and I have the direct line to the Western Regional >> sales manager). Aastra phones even have a default mode where the phone asks >> you for it's extension number and password and it seeks out the PBX server >> (pretty neat) and a nice XML interface to make them do neat tricks. >> Polycoms have an XML interface that you can drive from the server also. >> NetXUSA does a pretty good job of supporting Polycom on Asterisk here >> though. >> > > One other big plus for Aastra phones is that they have no proprietary POE > issues to worry about (no special cable or power injector needed; even > cheapo dlink POE switches work). I wish more IP phone manufacturers > supported the IAX protocol (Asterisk's open source native protocol has less > overhead than SIP) but I guess they're hedging their bets and supporting the > protocol that everything uses (even though standards vary). The ones I did > find that did IAX were complete junk. > > JD > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > Yes and it's really not saying much to any old PBX people or switch people or even Cisco router jockeys that it's "asterisk saavy" but once you play around in a soft switch there is really just nothing comparable than asterisk. (Unless maybe a nice SER ? -- Skype: 6022393392 ATT: 5037544452 GV: 6923073392 Phoenix Linux Security Team PLUG.PHOENIX.AZ.US http://www.it-clowns.com *"Great things are not done by impulse but a series of small things brought together." -Van Gogh*