[VoiceOps] Grandstream VoIP phones

[Carlos Alvarez]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Alex Balashov
<abalashov at evaristesys.com>wrote:

> It's been a while, but my issue with Grandstream has always been:
>
> 1) SIP interoperability & stack problems.
>
> 2) Low-end speaker phone hardware, thus bad echo cancellation and duplex
> handling.
>

I am not a speakerphone user myself, and most of our customers are not.
 Every now and then we get one that doesn't like the SPA phones, and
probably wouldn't like the Grandstream either.  We give them a Polycom.

The Grandstreams from a few years ago gave us a lot of issues on SIP and
provisioning, but that's gone as far as we've seen.  I originally turned
down the offer of some demo phones based on past experience, so I urge
everyone to discard that experience and see it as a new product.


> I mainly judge phone hardware by the quality of its speakerphone, since
> I'm a very heavy user, so it may be a personal bias.  However, by that
> metric, the Cisco 79xx's and Polycoms win, and Grandstreams, Snoms and
> Aastras lose.


Yeah, I'd never use speakerphone when talking to anyone, so user type will
be important here.  I always recommend a headset to the speakerphone users,
about 50% go for it.

-- 
Carlos Alvarez
TelEvolve
602-889-3003
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