[cisco-voip] Phones-Life expectancy

[Ed Leatherman]

Along these lines.. in 12 years will desk phones be as prevalent anyway? 20?
There may not be a need for them to be built to last that long anyway. The
trade-offs might be worth it just to keep them viable for 8 years :)

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Matthew Loraditch <
MLoraditch at heliontechnologies.com> wrote:

>  I have to agree with Erick on lifespan, I frankly don’t expect a 12 year
> no maintenance required lifespan from anything electronic. There are things
> that will last that long like some home appliances but most will require
> repair along the way.****
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> The manufacturing standards of 20-30 years ago may have provided more
> rugged long lasting devices but with very little room for inline feature
> upgrades and expansion, now you get a shorter lifespan but a much greater
> possibility of being able to get new features several times over the
> lifespan of the device through simple firmware upgrades.****
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> There are benefits to both types of hardware and a ROI calculations are not
> the same.****
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