![]() I even have it on my desk here, the 504G is a great phone. ![]() These are pretty good phones, although the Linksys branded version looks like kind of a toy, the 5xx series is a proper phone. Hence the first series of IP phones had the Linksys SPA in their names (the 3xx series), later came the Cisco SPA (5xx series) and then Cisco dropped the SPA name alltogether. Interestingly, Linksys bought Sipura, so when Cisco acquired Linksys, they sort of got Sipura as well. The small business series used to be the Linksys phones. Now, since the unorthodox step of buying Linksys, we know there is Cisco small business, and there is everything else. No, when it comes to IP telephony, I tend not to go cheap on the visible stuff. Also, get ready for constant complaints about noise, volume and call quality. Give them a $10 budget IP phone from China - nobody ever will think your system as a serious one. Its quality determines how end users will adapt to the system. One of the most important part is the end device, the ip phone itself. However, when it comes to quality (and telephony is something where quality does matter) prices can go up high easy. And there's nothing wrong with this, I want to buy cheaper stuff as well. It doesn't matter what the cost is, they want it cheaper. As with all new things being introduced to a microbusiness, they want it cheap. Most of our clients by now know what IP telephony is and we have quite a few success stories as well.
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