No noticeable performance differences? The only thing I can see being an issue with only one phone being the SBC is that user (most likely the receptionist) accidentally unplugging his/her phone and taking down every one else.
I haven't had occasion to set one up yet actually. They are limited to 10 phones using the SBC and/so are inherently limited by the phone's CPU. The advantage is using a phone is less expensive than setting up a Pi or VM or appliance. The disadvantage is it puts the phone near a person who may unplug it. If it was only a handful of phones I think I'd set them up on their own. If it was a lot, then an SBC. The question is what should be done in the middle and how likely is that particular phone to be unplugged?
Limited to 10 phones if the other phones are not acting as their own router/SBC you mean, right? If all phones going in are router phones, then I just need to find out if there is any disadvantage to setting each one up as an SBC. There is clearly an advantage to doing so.I haven't had occasion to set one up yet actually. They are limited to 10 phones using the SBC and/so are inherently limited by the phone's CPU. The advantage is using a phone is less expensive than setting up a Pi or VM or appliance. The disadvantage is it puts the phone near a person who may unplug it. If it was only a handful of phones I think I'd set them up on their own. If it was a lot, then an SBC. The question is what should be done in the middle and how likely is that particular phone to be unplugged?
Oh shoot there is one phone in this install that needs to be on WiFi. I’ve run the Yealink WiFi dongles on the T43Us and have used the built in WiFi on a Yealink conference phone without issue (yet). Is this really that big of an problem?You can run each one as an individual router phone and they will be even more resilient since they don't all rely on one device.
The only con I see here is that local calls (between handsets and when no recording is enabled) will go out to the cloud and back. You end up using a little more bandwidth this way and introducing a bit of extra latency, but with under 10 phones it is probably not even noteworthy and you won't even notice it unless someone points it out.
Just make sure they all use wired ethernet since we do not support WiFi on any IP phones
