Small office phone setup
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@Dashrender said:
The phones would be approx $75/ea ($4875) plus POE switches (really don't want to be using power bricks), plus recabling, assume we have to do 3/4, at $100 a drop ($4875) Plus some software purchases for FreePBX and FOP2, etc.
PoE could be done down the road, FreePBX is free, FOP2 is only $40. Phones are a real cost but one that starts paying for itself immediately. The longer you wait to replace the phones, the more you pay month to month. So if you know that they will ever be replaced, the sooner the better. It's like having a leaky gas tank. It costs money to replace, but it has to be done. The sooner you do it, the less gas is wasted.
And if not replacing all at once causes you to make decisions based on branch needs instead of company needs you might be costing yourself even more by creating a more complicated setup that might plague you for a long time.
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@scottalanmiller said:
PoE could be done down the road, FreePBX is free, FOP2 is only $40. Phones are a real cost but one that starts paying for itself immediately. The longer you wait to replace the phones, the more you pay month to month. So if you know that they will ever be replaced, the sooner the better. It's like having a leaky gas tank. It costs money to replace, but it has to be done. The sooner you do it, the less gas is wasted.
I don't follow - where am I wasting money right now by keeping my current solution that I'm only spending money on the services provided by the telco?
And if not replacing all at once causes you to make decisions based on branch needs instead of company needs you might be costing yourself even more by creating a more complicated setup that might plague you for a long time.
I definitely could do this in a single big bang - put I need to proof of concept it before it would be accepted here. I've ordered a few Yeahlink deskphones to test with my new FreePBX install
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@Dashrender said:
I don't follow - where am I wasting money right now by keeping my current solution that I'm only** spending money on the services provided by the telco**?
That's the money.
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Going to full VoIP you can drop the expensive telco and go to lower cost, higher reliability VoIP vendors.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I don't follow - where am I wasting money right now by keeping my current solution that I'm only** spending money on the services provided by the telco**?
That's the money.
I'm in a contract - so that won't change for a while (at my main location).
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@Dashrender said:
I'm in a contract - so that won't change for a while (at my main location).
Oh that sucks!
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@ajstringham said:
I don't understand peoples' need to go PoE for phones. While I agree it can be handy, I look at it as one more thing to break. You have to buy PoE switches, which are, from what I've seen, a fair bit more expensive than standard switches. Upgrading the cabling would make sense though. Still, what's the big deal about plugging in one more cord for a phone?
It is easily cost effective.
The HP 1910-24G is $266.
The HP 1910-24G PoE (375W) is $540Cost Difference = $274
Yealink T42G Power Adapter = $4.50 * 24 = $108
Add in reduced install time (say 3 minutes per desk to unbox power cord and plug it in) = 72 minutes * $120/hour = $144
Then add in the benefit of having solid backup power for the phones because it is centralized.
PoE always makes sense if you are going to be buying a switch.
If you are not buying a switch to begin with, then you have more to justify.
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@JaredBusch are you getting Yealinks without power adapters? I've not seen any Yealink or Snom models that don't include the power bricks. So the PoE cost is all extra. Have they stopped including them with all models?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch are you getting Yealinks without power adapters? I've not seen any Yealink or Snom models that don't include the power bricks. So the PoE cost is all extra. Have they stopped including them with all models?
All of the T4X series ship without them.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch are you getting Yealinks without power adapters? I've not seen any Yealink or Snom models that don't include the power bricks. So the PoE cost is all extra. Have they stopped including them with all models?
All of the T4X series ship without them.
Yeah, but most users wouldn't need anything more than a T2X series.
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@ajstringham said:
Yeah, but most users wouldn't need anything more than a T2X series.
The T4X series is the current line up. The T3X series is no longer receiving updates. I have not checked into the T2x series.
The T41 is the goto baseline phone IMO. The T42 for gigabit passthrough.
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Just checked the Yealink website and the T32G had an update in July with only security fixes.
Prior to that it was last updated March 2013. They have not officially announced anything to my knowledge, but I call that a product going EoL.
Source: http://www.yealink.com/Upload/firmware/T3X/Yealink T3X-V70 Release Notes.pdf
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Or it could just be considered very stable and nothing new needs to be done to it. As long as they are still supporting and patching when needed, that's not EOL.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Or it could just be considered very stable and nothing new needs to be done to it. As long as they are still supporting and patching when needed, that's not EOL.
Ok, how about this. The T3X series is NOT included in the new beta version of firmware v73.
http://forum.yealink.com/forum/announcements.php?aid=8 -
@JaredBusch that's "better".
Time to get some new phones, I think
Although my next desk phone is likely to be a Ubiquiti rather than a Yealink, need to test it. -
@scottalanmiller The long feature update drought was why I went with the T4X series in March when I bid the last VoIP roll out. I figured I may have some minor stability issues, but at least I would not be on an EoL series of phones.
Looks like a decent set of new features in the new firmware.
ftp://ftp.yealink.com/00.Firmwares/V73/Release Notes/Yealink_SIP_phones_Relese_Notes_of_Version73.pdf -
Maybe it is EOL but not EOS. I believe that they are still patching for some time, even if not rolling out new features or cool updates. If you already have them, I would not be worried about updating. But if buying new, I would agree to look to the 4 series instead.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Although my next desk phone is likely to be a Ubiquiti rather than a Yealink, need to test it.
I'm interested in them personally, but not a lot for end users. The problem with any of the android based desk phones like this is how to restrict it without having to deal with an MDM solution for the desk phone.
I would much prefer to find a quality softphone that can be configured with a GUI that looks like a desk phone so people can have visible button functions for BLF and Call Park, etc. Something with an XML based skinning engine would be awesome.
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I think that an MDM solution for deskphones that run Android is probably a foregone conclusion. MDM is the new management paradigm for the "mobile OS" world. Maybe they will make a special MDM just for these that is included in the UniFi platform. That would be great, but would still be MDM.
You can use Meraki MDM for free to do the basic stuff.
