These days, there’s not much to choose between various phone systems.
The one differentiator is the service you get from your supplier.
Has anyone ever bought any of the following systems. If so, what sort of company are you, and how did the service cater to your needs? And what were the limitations?
Aastra Intelligate 150
Aastra Intelligate 300
Aastra Intelligate 2025
Aastra Intelligate 2045
NEC INFRONTIA NX120
PANASONIC KX-TDA15
PANASONIC KX-TDA30
PANASONIC KX-TDA100
SIEMENS HIPATH 3300/3350
SIEMENS HIPATH 3500/3550
TOSHIBA STRATA CIX 100
TOSHIBA STRATA CIX 200
Aastra Intelligate 2065
ALCATEL OMNIPCX ENTERPRISE
ALCATEL OMNIPCX OFFICE
NEC INFRONTIA ASPIRE
PANASONIC KX-TDA200
PANASONIC KX-TDA600
SIEMENS HIPATH 3800
TELEWARE IP EXTENSION SERVICES
TOSHIBA STRATA CIX670
December 8, 2006 at 1:36 pm |
Declare an interest as Call Navigator is a client, but I have their system and even I can use it, and I have NO patience with things that aren’t intuitive (including BT helpdesks)
May 20, 2008 at 5:23 am |
I guess VoIP are the phones which are replaing the traditional ones.
(wLAN) systems. Users need to be in the range of the wireless node in order to make and receive calls. And when they are in the Wi-Fi’s reach, they are able to do a lot of the same calling functions enabled by regular desktop VoIP phones. When one is already equipped with a wireless local area network as well as VoIP phones, adding wireless VoIP phones can be a logical step.
Wireless VoIP phones are also known as VoWLAN or voice over wireless local network areas and Wi-Fi phones. The working of wireless VoIP phones involves a data network to which Wi-Fi equipment is connected. The network itself can either be independent, or connected to the Internet or the public phone system. The equipment enables high-speed wireless connection to unlimited access points.
Each access point has an antenna to catch the signal from the Wi-Fi equipment and broadcast it in a 300-foot radius or a hot spot. Within the radius all Wi-Fi enabled laptops, personal digital organizers and wireless phones can tune into the signal.
In wireless VoIP phones, the voice is converted into segments of data for transmission from the phone antenna to the Wi-Fi radio waves and then received by the data network. Here the data segments reverse the process to reach an extension or the traditional phone network. In other words, an extension can be carried around.
Although there is no argument about wireless VoIP phones being advantageous, they have their share of shortcomings as well. Fore one, they can not yet completely replace hard-wire VoIP phones mainly due to lack of reliability and the limited functions of wireless phones currently available in comparison to desktop phones.
However the biggest disadvantage in wireless VoIP phones is the limit on the number of simultaneous calls that can be made. The maximum number of calls in each wireless system cannot exceed five or ten. This seriously undermines its call handling capability in a large corporate environment.
Nevertheless, the dramatic reduction in operational costs has made it possible for wireless operators with high quality compressed VoIP to bring the ease and comfort of cordless calling to the VoIP world.