Jeronimo Romero
2006-Nov-15 18:23 UTC
[asterisk-users] Grandstream GXP2000 -- What's the Catch?
We are doing a medium sized office in NYC with 80 phones. The customer originally requested Polycom 601 phones. The COO also authorized us to purchase 2 Grandstream GXP2000 phones for the mail room. We find these phones much easier to configure and work with asterisk . They support BLF & intercom right out of the box. They can also be centrally managed and provisioned. They also sound great and work in a very intuitive way. We don't have real life experience deploying this phone so I'm just going to ask: Is there a catch? Why the huge price difference? These phones seem to do everything a busy corporate office would need. Is there a big qualitative difference between this phone and Polycom501/601?? Is there a major problem with this phone not disclosed by the manufacturer or vendors. Some feedback from people who have deployed them would be great. Thanks In advance. JR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061115/b1b19e8e/attachment.htm
They brake easy. Speaker phone is not very good. Overall sound not good compared to a Snom, Polycom or Cisco phone. Drop registrations with Asterisk randomly. Power supplies die. Had 4 out of 10 go bad within a year. LCD backlight died on 2 that I deployed. We only do the Snom 320 or 360's now and are just as easy to configure and have alot of great options as well. On 11/15/06, Jeronimo Romero <jromero@eusnetworks.com> wrote:> > > > We are doing a medium sized office in NYC with 80 phones. The customer > originally requested Polycom 601 phones. The COO also authorized us to > purchase 2 Grandstream GXP2000 phones for the mail room. We find these > phones much easier to configure and work with asterisk . They support BLF & > intercom right out of the box. They can also be centrally managed and > provisioned. They also sound great and work in a very intuitive way. We > don't have real life experience deploying this phone so I'm just going to > ask: > > > > Is there a catch? Why the huge price difference? These phones seem to do > everything a busy corporate office would need. Is there a big qualitative > difference between this phone and Polycom501/601?? Is there a major problem > with this phone not disclosed by the manufacturer or vendors. Some feedback > from people who have deployed them would be great. > > > > Thanks In advance. > > > > JR > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >-- Tom Vile -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061115/1456d149/attachment.htm
Jeronimo Romero
2006-Nov-15 19:24 UTC
[asterisk-users] Grandstream GXP2000 -- What's the Catch?
Thanks for the input. I take it the snoms support both BLF & intercom? =====================Jeronimo Romero EUS Networks Email: jromero@euscorp.com Cell: 917-332-7238 Office: 212-624-5943 Web: www.euscorp.com ===================== ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tom Vile Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:16 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Grandstream GXP2000 -- What's the Catch? They brake easy. Speaker phone is not very good. Overall sound not good compared to a Snom, Polycom or Cisco phone. Drop registrations with Asterisk randomly. Power supplies die. Had 4 out of 10 go bad within a year. LCD backlight died on 2 that I deployed. We only do the Snom 320 or 360's now and are just as easy to configure and have alot of great options as well. On 11/15/06, Jeronimo Romero <jromero@eusnetworks.com> wrote: We are doing a medium sized office in NYC with 80 phones. The customer originally requested Polycom 601 phones. The COO also authorized us to purchase 2 Grandstream GXP2000 phones for the mail room. We find these phones much easier to configure and work with asterisk . They support BLF & intercom right out of the box. They can also be centrally managed and provisioned. They also sound great and work in a very intuitive way. We don't have real life experience deploying this phone so I'm just going to ask: Is there a catch? Why the huge price difference? These phones seem to do everything a busy corporate office would need. Is there a big qualitative difference between this phone and Polycom501/601?? Is there a major problem with this phone not disclosed by the manufacturer or vendors. Some feedback from people who have deployed them would be great. Thanks In advance. JR _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Tom Vile -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061115/4e4fa086/attachment.htm