57i
Submitted by brbourdo on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 11:38am.
Hey all,
I don't actually have one of these, and thus don't need any help with it. However, I'm curious on people's experience with it. I've read a few articles about how it's supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. I've been considering picking one up, but, the lack of a color screen kinda gets me a little bit. I have and love a set of 7970's, but their features are lacking heavily.
What do you guys think?
Thanks,
Brian
Kerry, come on now...
Wed, 03/05/2008 - 12:36pm
:)
I love my 57i, and all I did was program one of my soft keys to be the transfer button and it works like a charm.... Love it, wouldn't trade it. I've raved about this phone from the day I had it. Sound Quality is off the charts. Compared to our Cisco 7960 and a Grandstream GXP2000 I would always choose this phone.
The sound on the Cisco is great, but I've yet to be able to figure out how to do a Busy Line Feed on it. For our office, being able to know who is on the phone and who isn't is a great thing! I know I could do it with hud, but I already have 100 other programs running on my computer so blah! :)
Try it, it's really hard for me to think you wouldn't love it.
Kerry, the transfer button
Wed, 03/05/2008 - 2:28pm
Kerry, the transfer button comes on when you get on an active call -- same as Linksys and many other vendors. The phone comes comes out of the box that way. I moved to this phone a few days ago from a Linksys SPA 942 and it is a world of difference. The XML apps are awesome and provide some functionality I have been seeking for some time. So far I can find zero complaints. Zero. I thought I had a good phone with that Linksys unit, but there is no comparison.
Speakerphone has had excellent quality as has the handset. Have not tried a headset yet. The phone is intuitive and has a great web interface. But, and this is huge, whatever I couldn't figure out, Aastra had incredibly good documentation that contained my answer. As I said, I've only had it for a few days, but I am kicking myself for not buying these sooner. Oh, and they come with an AC power adapter. That used to tick me off to no end that every time I bought a $135 Linksys phone, I had to spend another $25 or so on a power supply. The aastras come with the AC adapter and support POe if you would rather use that.
awesome with automatic XML provisioning
Wed, 03/05/2008 - 4:06pm
The thing I love most about these phones is that with a little bit of work on the front end you can set it up to where all that you have to do is plug the phone in and as long as you have dhcp set to hand out the tftp address these things will provision themselves.
Here are the workflow steps of deploying them (assumes you have already configured the extensions in FreePBX:
1. Take out of box
2. Plug phone in.
3. The phone screen comes up and asks you for the extension number and password.
4. The phone reboots and is provisioned.
It is that simple. This way you can deploy a large number of these very painlessly and quickly. Or can send just about anyone out to a site to setup a new phone or replace one.
The XML parking lot is also very nice... get you very close to key system functionality that a lot of people are looking for.
Very slick.....
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