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What can an IP phone give you that a digital cant?

No kidding. That is perhaps one of the most valuable features of the IPO or many other systems: The ability to use any kind of phone behind the nodes. It really doesn't make much sense to use IP phones in an on-premise environment in such an application.

Old school? I think not.

What can an IP phone give you that a digital cant?

Headaches and a smaller bank account.

-Hal

I have setup three IP Office systems now, and have not used a single IP phone on any of them. There is nothing that the IP phone offered that the digital phones couldn't handle. Plus, you are looking at a costlier setup and program time as you must get your LAN in proper working order as to not cause conflicts or performance issues with other devices and call quality.

I know enought to stay away from the Voip phones, but I will use a couple for remote-remote employees that work out of their home, beside that I really don't see a need.

We had a situation a few years ago at a lumber yard where the customer needed a phone in a yard office that was on the other side of the property from where the other phones was going to be along with the IPO switch.
They didn't want any over head cables and ditching with conduit would have be a pretty labor intense.
So we put up a point to point wireless and hung a IP phone on the yard office side. Worked great.

But yeah, we mostly use the digital sets on IPO.

I dont deny that IP phones have their place, but it chaps my ash that IT guys think it is the end all be all.

I have an IP 500 hanging off a legned that the customer needed a few ip phones acroos the street, they got dsl and i put 4 VPN remote phones in. Works awesome...AND i got them locked in to another system already....

AND, if these IT nerds want to be "technical", it isnt technically Voice Over Internet Protocol...IT NEVER HITS THE INTERNET. Voice Over Lan Protocol......YOU HEARD IT HERE!!!

Thank you. It is a protocol that is being emulated where necessary. I couldn't have said it better myself. We need to spread this to the mainstream. We have a big job ahead of us.

If you can keep the IP part of the system within your network, the glitchs are controlable. It's when you start to rely on the public network( internet) that the problems appear. Live and learn. I went to a VOIP conference 5 years ago, they said ALL communications would be over the internet within 5 years....I'm still waiting.

I guess when it comes to the IP Office product it doesn't make a lot of sense to go IP sets because you need to purchase "Voice Compression Modules". So I guess I wouldn't recommend that product line. You may as well just purchase a refurbished Merlin Magix and put in digital sets.