We've been using grandstream phones for quite a while, cheap and easy to
provision. One of my new business customers is making a stink because
'he's never heard of Grandstream, these phones just don't work with my
bluetooth headset, I NEED a Cisco phone because that's a real phone'
I'm thinking that it's mainly about ego, that his friends probably have
Cisco phones on their desks, and he doesn't, so he's making up issues.
I haven't used Cisco phones in many years, Linksys SPA504G's were my
last dabble into non-grandstream phones.
It looks like a Cisco phone with Bluetooth (A requirement) is about $550
for an 8851. How do you provision those? Is there any sort of cloud
provisioning? Still done with TFTP? Put some sort of call manager on
site? I really like that I can provision the Grandstream phones while
they are behind the customers firewall without having to do any port
forwarding etc. Cisco always used to like Licensing, is that still the
case to use them with normal SIP, or are they all SIP now.
Just wondering if it's worth trying to investigate Cisco phones for this
one customer, or if Cisco phones really want a Cisco Callmanager on the
backend.
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