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I have a client with an aging Avaya Partner ACS system with about 10 phones and 4 phone lines. They just signed a 3 year or so contract with Comcast for their internet and phone service. I am looking into replacing their phone system with sip phones, but would like to keep their 4 pots lines from comcast in order to reduce the number of troubles that you can have with sip trunks. I will still be implementing at least 1 sip trunk for overflow and they will have a remote home office or two with phones as well. They do have an analog wired polycom conference phone as well.
I have a few other clients running older asterisk based piaf systems that are full sip and they love them. Yes, they have occasional issues, but they love the flexibility of their system and total lower usage costs.
Anyway, questions are as follows:
1) Are there always going to be slight echo issues with analog cards? I would hope some of the ones with hardware echo cancellation would be decent. Could I get by with a cheaper older 4 port FXO card with hardware cancellation that you can find for about $300 on ebay, etc?
2) Do I get an FXS port for the existing analog conference room phone or simply get something like a Polycom 5000 that can be had for less than $200.
3) Any particular desktop phones people are recommending these days that built in gigabit switches? Im thinking some basic ones for less than $100 that have 4 line appearances. They don't have a lot of network locations in the office, so going to have to share a port with the computer. Going to replace their switch probably with one that provides POE or simply get a 12 port POE injector if their current switch is already gigabit.
Thanks everyone for your time. I sincerely appreciate it. Looking forward to checking out the latest PiaF as its been many years since I setup a brand new one.
I have a few other clients running older asterisk based piaf systems that are full sip and they love them. Yes, they have occasional issues, but they love the flexibility of their system and total lower usage costs.
Anyway, questions are as follows:
1) Are there always going to be slight echo issues with analog cards? I would hope some of the ones with hardware echo cancellation would be decent. Could I get by with a cheaper older 4 port FXO card with hardware cancellation that you can find for about $300 on ebay, etc?
2) Do I get an FXS port for the existing analog conference room phone or simply get something like a Polycom 5000 that can be had for less than $200.
3) Any particular desktop phones people are recommending these days that built in gigabit switches? Im thinking some basic ones for less than $100 that have 4 line appearances. They don't have a lot of network locations in the office, so going to have to share a port with the computer. Going to replace their switch probably with one that provides POE or simply get a 12 port POE injector if their current switch is already gigabit.
Thanks everyone for your time. I sincerely appreciate it. Looking forward to checking out the latest PiaF as its been many years since I setup a brand new one.
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