I had a VoIP customer cancel and switch to Ooma Office. When I went to retrieve the Grandstream phones, their new phones from Ooma were ... Grandstream.
Just my opinion, but if this customer insists that only Cisco phones are real phones, it sounds like what women would call a "red flag" on a first date. Only the first of many worldview clashes in a relationship that isn't going to work. -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12:41 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones 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. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
