On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 13:09 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Guy Fraser <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > What kinds of IP phones are you using? > > > > If you have POTS connections waht devices are you using? > > > > We have tried to use a couple of different IP phones, but > > they would only talk to the same brand using their internal > > gatekeeper software. > > The cheap phones I like the best are the grandstream budgetone (around > $65). I also have a supra spa-3000 for answering the POTS line and > taking messages. (my motto: anything worth build is worth > over-building. ;-)) I also have sipura spa-841, but the audio path is > very noisy. I haven't had any show-stopper interoperability problems > that a bit of playing with the options settings couldn't fix. I do > use ulaw (standard US phone) encoding so that may help. Every phone > and VOIP provider seems to do ulaw even if it may not be their > preferred encoding. > > OB open-source: these phones follow the voip rfc's and can talk to > open-source sip phones (unlike the proprietary stuff like skype which > is in a world to itself.) > Thank you I will pass the information on.
