What Cisco phones do you deploy at work?

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Just got back from meeting our account manager and these look to be great. I have a slight preference for the handset of the 7900 series, but the 7800's look great and feel much better to use the n the 6900. Meant to be the same price point too.
 
Rossi~ said:
Just thought i'd post my thoughts on One Net after having it for a month.

It's ****. It sounds like a good idea but in practice it just went badly for us and has been a terrible experience so far.

-Cisco 514 and 525 phones are worse than our 8 year old 3com phones.
-Directory is unusable
-Ridiculous amount of calls get cut off
-Sure signals in the office for mobile users are very temperamental
-Vodafone service/support is horrible
-Miss-sold for our Germany office
-For the "Complete" users to benefit from the sequential ring pattern the caller has to wait for 15 seconds without it being answered before it forwards to mobile, by which time 90% of people would've hung up.
-Spelling mistakes and general laziness in the project management/implementation side of things.

I am looking to just go to Lync now and cut Vodafone loose.
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Interesting. We very nearly went with onenet (our mobiles are already with Vodafone). When we got a full analysis done it turned out their "deal" wasn't quite a good as it looked, so we went with a "traditional" IP system that's being installed over the next few weeks.
 
The 69xx range is being discontinued as it was such a poor seller, which is why they introduced the 78xx to replace them.
 
7962's going out to everyone globallly I think. That's probably 150k of handsets actually. I've been involved in around 10k of that and so far so good. Some people find the handset weight a little high, but I think it's OK.

Not using any of the advanced features. Just caller ID and a dial tone...! If it were up to me we'd have the full unified comms rolled out years ago.
 
The 6900s were utter trash. All the bad bits of the Linksys/Sipura handsets that came before them and no changes other than costing more. A handset so light you could breathe on it and it would fly across the room, stands that liked to fall off at random, and a two line display to make navigation terrible.

Not a patch on the 7962 range. Hopefully they've fixed it with the 7800 series.

Still, it's hard to beat a Polycom.
 
The stands look more or less identical, but wearing a dress. I hate taking them off on the 6900 series so didn't remove it from the 7800. The handsets are still not as good as the 7900 series ones but much better then the 6800, still can't really pin it between your eye and shoulder though. At least the weighting of it is correct (if still a touch light) they look more modern though.
 
Rossi~ said:
Just thought i'd post my thoughts on One Net after having it for a month.

It's ****. It sounds like a good idea but in practice it just went badly for us and has been a terrible experience so far.

-Cisco 514 and 525 phones are worse than our 8 year old 3com phones.
-Directory is unusable
-Ridiculous amount of calls get cut off
-Sure signals in the office for mobile users are very temperamental
-Vodafone service/support is horrible
-Miss-sold for our Germany office
-For the "Complete" users to benefit from the sequential ring pattern the caller has to wait for 15 seconds without it being answered before it forwards to mobile, by which time 90% of people would've hung up.
-Spelling mistakes and general laziness in the project management/implementation side of things.

I am looking to just go to Lync now and cut Vodafone loose.
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Out of curiosity, what's wrong with the phones? We're moving from an ancient meridian system and 504's are the basic phone we've been offered.

Thanks :)
 
Rossi~ said:
Just thought i'd post my thoughts on One Net after having it for a month.

It's ****. It sounds like a good idea but in practice it just went badly for us and has been a terrible experience so far.

-Cisco 514 and 525 phones are worse than our 8 year old 3com phones.
-Directory is unusable
-Ridiculous amount of calls get cut off
-Sure signals in the office for mobile users are very temperamental
-Vodafone service/support is horrible
-Miss-sold for our Germany office
-For the "Complete" users to benefit from the sequential ring pattern the caller has to wait for 15 seconds without it being answered before it forwards to mobile, by which time 90% of people would've hung up.
-Spelling mistakes and general laziness in the project management/implementation side of things.

I am looking to just go to Lync now and cut Vodafone loose.
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We can offer a much more reliable system with Cisco handsets if you want to drop me a pm! :)
 
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