Topic: Yealink T38 SIP Phone

[SARK devs]

Hi all

Just a quick note to let you know that we will deliver provisioning support for these Chinese SIP units in the next point release.  They are the first openly Chinese-designed phones that we've thought to be any good. The only downside is that they don't work properly with dynamic proxy, but other than that these are interesting units at the price point.  They use TI DSPs rather than in-country stuff which means they support things like G722 and on-board echo-cancellation.  They have a nice look and feel to them and they give good call quality "out-of-the-box".  I don't think Snom has anything to worry about but they will give Aastra a run for their money.

Picture here (next to the phone which they have outrageously aped). 

http://sarkpbx.com/sail/images/CIMG0658.JPG

Kind Regards

S



 

[gippsweb]

They retail for about 250 aud here.
We had a look at then a few months back. One of our suppliers is pushing them rather heavily. I think you are right about them giving the aastra's a bit of a run.

The other new product they had when we were down there was the Leadtek videophone. Although they were waiting on some firmware changes on it and were unsure of time to market...

[Franco]

I like them, are they cumbersome like cisco to provision or do they have a web interface that makes life easier?

[SARK devs]

They have a web interface. It is nicely laid out and easy to use, the only downside being the sometimes slightly odd Chinese-English translation which you often seem to get with Chinese originated design.

Automatic provisioning is very straightforward with only two file types; a "global" file and a "mac" file specific to each phone.   

Best

S 

 

[gippsweb]

Didn't get to look at the provisioning side of them as our disty was busy pushing it's own pbx solution as well as the epygi boxes with the phones as a "solution" rather than the individual parts...

Good from their point of view, but I prefer our own setup albeit with handsets sourced from them anyway....

[SARK devs]

If Epygi is the solution, I really would have to wonder what the question was.

S

[gippsweb]

lol, I agree. They sell that and another asterisk brew called pbxnsip.
We did a few asterisk boxes, most of them used asterisk@home back then. Since I've started using Sail in the office, there is no way I'd go back to using any of the other versions on a full time basis.

Although I do grab an iso every now and then to see what I've got that they don't.

Sail just runs so damn quick compared to most everything else I've tried.