Re: More on SIP hard phones

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I got a lot of feedback from folks - thanks.  

It looks like there's been a huge effort from manufacturers over the
past year or so to roll out more basic and cost effective SIP phones.
That is huge in my book, since we really want to get out of the "Henry
Ford pbx phone set" at Georgetown (meaning any phone set you want as
long as it's our black Avaya PBX phone).  Avaya say's that it's next
release for the s8700 platform will support SIP - we'll see. This also
provides us an enormous range of options to use off the Broadsoft switch
as well.  That's great.

The IPDialog set looks interesting http://www.ipdialog.com and priced
right ($200 or less).  The only thing I couldn't tell was whether you
could get multiple calls/multiple call appearances on it.  I see a
"flash" key - which certainly will look familiar to analog centrex line
users - but it's always been a pain when conf calling etc.... 

Ben T (oh great fearless VoIP leader) - One thing we may want to think
about building (I2 VOIP working group) is a matrix of IP and SIP phones
and which platforms they work well on. This would be especially useful
for softphones, especially since even the "free" Windows Messenger
Client can be a real pain to configure. Dennis B and Steve B both
indicated that they have trialed lots of phones over the past year so I
think there's already a wealth of knowledge out in our group that could
be very useful to all of us.  An example of this for me yesterday was
the IPDialog link.  That's something that looks very promising and I see
that set as a real potential terminal for lots of legacy Centrex sites
as they cut over to new platforms that support SIP.  

Thanks again folks.  CBP

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Blair 
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Date: Friday, October 3, 2003 10:12 am
Subject: Re: More on SIP hard phones

> 
> Chris:
> 
>   I'd suggest you look at Ipdialog phones if you need a low cost
> single line set. We had a demo in hear a year ago that cost $200
> at that time. There were some software issues then but I would
> hope they have been resolved by now.
> 
> _Steve
> 
> Chris Peabody wrote:
> 
> > I'd been pinging emails back and forth with folks over the past 
> few 
> > days about some "basic" SIP enabled phones at  a reasonable 
> price.  
> > We've been buying the Cisco 7960SIP phones - and they're running 
> about 
> > $500 which obviously is not going to scale.
> >
> > I had not really followed Cisco's product line lately, and am 
> kind of 
> > impressed. http://www.cisco.com/go/ipphones
> >
> > One of GU's initial application of the Broadsoft/PaeTec I2 
> system is 
> > to replace the existing Analog Centrex phones we've had as back 
> up to 
> > our PBX on campus.  Many of these area's/offices only need 
> single line 
> > functionality.  $200/phone is getting close to "scaleability" .  
> The 
> > payback on the investment in the IP phone at $200/phone is about 
> 14 
> > months - which from my perspective is fairly reasonable.
> >
> > CBP
> >
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:    RE: Cisco IP phones (SIP)
> > Date:       Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:29:46 -0400
> > From:       Marty Hoffman 
> > <>
> > To:         'Chris Peabody' 
> > <>
> > CC:         'Charles Wolfe' 
> > <>,
> >  'Quintin Thomas' 
> > <>,<>,<>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >  
> > Cisco CP-7902G IP Phone is $170, including license, list price.  
> Power 
> > cord is $55, but most customers use in-line power.  All depends 
> on the 
> > functionality you're looking for.  Plus we've shipped over a 
> million 
> > phones in the last year alone.  Maybe it's time for a product 
> update.>  
> > --Marty
> 
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