atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums VOIP Phones & IP PBX VoIP & Cloud Phones, Hosted PBX, General IP Phones Why don't IP phones have universal many DSS buttons like digital system phones?

Is the system still sold by Bizfone???
When you say intercom all sets do you mean All Page as in one way voice broadcast to all sets that are idle. And voice intercom meaning call 1 phone that is idle and the speakerphone comes on with the mic open???

Toshiba IP phones operate the same as the TDM phones. Up to 60 fully programmable buttons on the phone, plus 1 (or 2 if I remember right) 60 button console can be associated with a phone.

brokeda,
yeah, the IP system that Bizfone sells is the Allworks one as far as I know...but things change quick!

It seems as was mentioned earlier, if you have an IP system made by a telephone manufacturer like Toshiba, Vodavi, Siemens, Avaya (kind of),you are going to get the feature you want (for the most part) but if it is by a Data vendor...cough, cough, Cisco..cough.....good luck getting the typical telephone features you have come ot expect without big bucks....

Steve

Bizphone only OEM's the Allworx 10x from us. Not the phones or the Allworx 6x. We are the original manufacturer of everything. There's nothing in place where they will OEM our other solutions and software pieces in the future.

John,

It's a good product, but the 110 issue isn't the one you should worry about! Netgear makes a 24 port 100Mhz POE for like $400 that works cherry with the system! Even adding that in, you should be competative with other brands like
Avaya IP and others. No the issue you should be VERY worried about is regarding dealer channel and protection which doesn't exist.

Corwyn

Again: When you say intercom all sets do you mean All Page as in one way voice broadcast to all sets that are idle. And voice intercom meaning call 1 phone that is idle and the speakerphone comes on with the mic open???
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Yes you can do both you can dial a page zone
ie 46(0) there are actualy 9 zones that you can create which include local and remote phones and you can intercom from station to station.


Corwyn

This is
Allworx?

what is? What I descibed above? Yes the 10x allworx brand and the 7000 bizfon brand do this. THe only difference betwen the 2 is that the allworx brand has the calendering feature that NO ONE I've ever heard of uses.
Ditto for all the other crap they shoved in there - web host, file server and e-mail server.

Again the product is great for the niche, but you have zero standing so you have no idea where you are. Like I said, if you can live with that the product is great, but if you are looking for some kind of an organized dealer channel and protection you're in the WRONG place. Right now they claim they're not oeming the 6x but if john the butcher or hello direct or abecromby and fitch plops down enough cash -well lets just say I wouldn't be at all surprised.

We're getting set up with Allworx. The product seems to be the best we've seen so far. As mentioned, they need a 24 button phone. It's a joke to have to switch applications on your computer to see your phone--unless you're the live attendant where that's the only application you run. They claim they will protect the VAR channel. We'll find out soon if they stick to this!