Re: Asterisk, VoIP and wireless phones

> Thanks again, more good info.  I had read positive things about the  
> Snom phones, but it seems like the Aastra's may be the best choice  
> (particularly for businesses that can spend the $). I think Digium  
> sells Polycom SIP phones with their SwitchVox product.  I am relieved  
> to know that there are SIP phones out there with cordless/wireless  
> units that work well.

while polycoms are good, you'll find the aastras to be more user
friendly when it comes to get
full documentation and firmware updates, polycom blocks that info for
registered resellers,
you'll find aastra desk phones as low as $40,
there are also native wifi voip phones, they register and carry the
traficc using your wifi access point,
(i.e. you can use it as your extension at any hotspot)

> It's seems like most of the world is using SIP, but I've heard IAX is  
> more efficient and some people say it plays better with NAT; though  
> I've no direct experience with using either protocol.  As you point  
> out though, SIP seems to have widespread use, is well supported, etc.

no nat problems if your router can do port forwarding and you only have
one Asterisk box inside the lan,
nat problems appear when you have more than one device in the lan
registering to the outside,
in this case your box is the central hub. so everything comes and goes
to it.

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