Max number of phones a Router Phone can handle

[erling]

I've got an install of around 100 various Yealink phones, 8 of which are Router Phones.

There are only about 20 phones that get regular call volume; the rest are rarely used.

Would it make sense to connect the rarely used phones to a single Router Phone (in like groups of 20), and keep the 10 to 1 ratio for the phones with more normal usage?

I guess the question is if it's possible to connect 20 phones to a single Router Phone (if the call volume is light, and no BLF keys are active)?

 

[CentrexJ]

That would fall under the not supported or recommended. You could but results can potentially suffer.

 

[SteveITS]

@erling
I’m not sure what rearranging gains you?

With 100 I might consider going the other way and https://www.3cx.com/docs/sbc-high-availability-cluster/

 

[erling]

Thanks for the replies!

I'll add that we did try pointing a few more than 10 phones to the same Router Phone with no issues.

The customer needed more phones anyway, so we added a few more (Router Phones) just to be safe.

V.20 seems to be doing a good job of automatically allocating new phones to the available inventory of Router Phones (and keeping them evened out).