Going to Eval/ What is the best phone?

[mrsam3]

We have 4 offices, 10 phones in the main one and 2 in each remote office. We have a VOIP solution in place right now but it is not very reliable. I want to give this solution a try, do you know what phone model works best with the feature set that 3CX provides?

 

[pjr]

Snom, Polycom and Cisco SMB (Linksys) all work very well and have their own pros/cons

With the remote phones - do they have hardware VPN connectivity to your head office or do they connect externally via STUN for example? Polycom phones can't use a STUN server so they might not work as remote extensions.

We use Polycom on all our installs and they are great.

Paul

 

[mrsam3]

we are going to eval it first and then think about selling it so it will be out network, right now we have a point to point vpn tunnel with a hardware solution. Although they are on different private 192.168.x.x subnets they can still talk without having to establish a VPN themselves. What phone model do you have the most success with across a DSL connection?

Thank you so much for your info...

 

[pjr]

We've used Snom and Polycom and both are as good as one another across the DSL.

The main concern with DSL is bandwidth - we provide a dedicated line for VoIP traffic and use a different DSL line for internet browsing etc, to guarantee there will always be bandwidth available for voice.

 

[mrsam3]

Do you have any models in particular that you recommend to test with? Maybe on the low end and then the high end