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What SIP phones should I buy?

Date : Le 26 septembre 2007
From : Ramon F Herrera
Sujet : What SIP phones should I buy?

I am very familiar with the Sipura/Linksys line of ATAs and some of
the phones. My problem is that I am offering to replace traditional
PBXs with an Asterisk-based PBX. Many of those customers are used to
brand names like Avaya and would like to have a top brand, nice
looking, with the best audio, etc. phone sets.

Frankly speaking, the SPA941 looks kind of cheap, and its sound is not
that great.

So, I am told that the best VoIP phone available is the Polycom, and I
started researching them.

Disappointment Number One: I find out that Polycom has a policy of
only allowing special people, priests of some sort, to access their
sacred firmware. Well, I guess that if their quality is as good as
they say, they are entitled to be arrogant and unfriendly to
customers. Call them Soup Nazis.

Disappointment Number Two: (and as opposed to #1, this is a biggie) It
seems that most Polycom phones do not have a web server built in. I
simply couldn't believe this. One of my concern is the dialplan. With
Linksys, it offers a lot of flexibility with the phone making decision
as to which gateway to connect, etc., etc. OTOH, even the top of the
line Polycoms: all they have is the crummy low res display as a
configuring interface.

Both brands can be auto-provisioned.

Is it fair to say that Linksys has much more expertise in HTTP,
routing, Internet, while Polycom is the standard as far as voice
quality??

Comments, opinions?

-Ramon

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