BKM wrote:
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> Depends on the features you wish to support and the amount you are prepared
> to pay (as always). If price is not an issue then the Cisco phones take some
> beating, they are robust and support variety of options, including a nice
> XML interface for handling a central directory. Then you have the SNOM and
> Polycom ranges both of which get good reports in the various forums. Polycom
> gets good reports for its hand free and SNOM for its adherence to the SIP
> standard (whatever that might be this week ;-). Now, if only SNOM would
> support IAX (the Asterisk protocol) out of the box then it would be 'no
> contest' IMHO.

There was some debate at Astricon Europe about Snom and IAX2. Christian
Stredicke said that Snom couldn't justify spending the money to
implement IAX2. Of course, he gets a heap of Asterisk zealots asking for
this all the time so it was interesting to hear why he wasn't going to
do it. Then someone (Mark Spencer, IIRC) asked if they could come to
some arrangement whereby the * community (or Digium, my recollection is
hazy..) could do the development for them... So someone, somewhere, is
thinking about this.

Of course, IAX doesn't do presence at the moment (although I think
Digium are convinced that it will have to at some stage...) so things
like buddy lights won't work...

jd


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