Question : New Elastix Deployment, first timer, need phones.?

Hello everyone!

Well after a lot of research and checking on various PBX systems, someone mentioned Elastix and kind of got me hooked on it.

Now, we have decided to go the Elastix route for a new office location, to start we are going to need:

23 wired phones
2 conference room systems
2 cordless phones
1 Secretary phone, with some kind of add-on base for easily transferring calls. (something like the Polycom IP670)


So my question was what phones should i be ordering, i would prefer something that just works really, i was looking at polycom, but some people say they have issues with 330's, 320's and 501's... is this still a current issue? The person who showed me Elastix's said they were using Polycom cause they aren't as expensive as other companies.

I really don't want to order phones that could give me troubles and i have to manually edit config files to get them to pick up?

So any help for this new person to make his life easier would be very very appreciated!

Also, i assume the phones i order all need to be SIP based?

Answer : New Elastix Deployment, first timer, need phones.?

The phones will certenly handle the load. The 480i would just give you more screen area for custom menu's and separate phone lists etc... but if you dont need that then there is no real point paying the extra.

Having two separate networks is fine. The normal way of doing it is to have the switch configured to use VLANs. The phone can then be configured with a VLAN tag so its traffic goes over one VLAN while untagged traffic (the computer) goes over the default one. The main reason why this is the more common apporach is because it reduces the cabling needed in the office walls and you only need one cable from the wall to the desk since the pc cable goes to the back of the phone.