[ILUG] Views on IP phones

[Niall O Broin]

On 25 Jul 2005, at 10:44, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> On Mon 25 Jul 2005 10:15, FRLinux wrote:
> :
>>> I am of course only interested in phones which work with Asterisk, 
>>> but
>>> I imagine pretty much all VOIP phones will do that.
>
>> I am currently working on this part. You could go for the Grandstream
>> BudgetTone 100. It does  what it says on the tin, it is cheap (you can
>> get one from 120 euros with BlueFace and possibly less if you search a
>> bit) but reliable. You still have the option of softfones which work
>> nicely too (although having a real phone on a desk will appeal more to
>> most users).
>
> As a matter of interest, why can't one use a standard phone
> costing 10--20 euro?

The IP functionality of most phones costing 10--20 euro is somewhat 
limited.

You CAN get devices which enable you to connect 1 or 2 analog phones to 
a SIP server and indeed, I'm probably going to sign up for Blueface and 
get such a device (Linksys PAP2) for home use. The current question 
concerns an office deployment of Asterisk.



Niall