What VoIP Products Do YOU Need?
4,000.
The number of products we currently carry.
10.
The number of emails I get from vendors any given day about adding a new product to VoIP Supply.
1.
The number of questions I ask when thinking about whether or not to add a product.
What is that question you ask?
“Do our customers need this product?”
There is a problem with that question though. How do I know what YOU really need, if I am not constantly asking YOU what it is that YOU need.
So I am going to put down my mind reading apparatus for a moment and ask you a simple question:
“What products should we add to VoIP Supply?”
I want to hear from YOU what products we should be adding to our product catalog, so leave me some suggestions in the comments and hopefully we can add that product (or product type) to our catalog.
After all, if you ask us to add it, it is probably because YOU need it…and we want to make sure we have everything YOU need for VoIP.
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D VoipSupply DECT phones with SIP base stations (Access Points) running POE that scale to hundreds of users per building. Cost no object.
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3. Offer the best affordable price.
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I agree with Ali. But there is one area that I have been having trouble with. I need a WI-FI SIP phone that is as stable as the Linksys WIP-330, but that can also switch access points on the fly. It would be even better if that phone was also a flip phone, but it would not be necessary.
Here are my needs for the device, in my order of priority.
1) it has to stay connected, or at the least re-connect within a few seconds (eg. 15-45) if it does get disconnected.
2) It needs to be able to switch access points on the fly. Even in the middle of a conversation.
3) It needs to be physically robust. Picture a mechanic working on a car, and the thing slides out of his pocket, and he steps on it before he notices it. It should still work. or picture the dish washer working in a restaurant. The phone slides out of her pocket into the hot sudsy water. She sets it aside until it is dry, turns it on, and it still works.
4) It needs a working headphone/earpiece jack that can use commonly available — or at least readily available phone ear pieces.
5) It needs to have a web browser so that even if the only access point available requires web authentication, it will still be usable.
Features that would be nice, would add value to the phone, but are not absolutely necessary. This is in no particular order.
1) flip phone
2) built in utilities such as — calculator, contact manager, todo list, alarm clock, calendar, etc.
3) media player — eg. mp3 player and maybe a movie player
4) camera
5) samba (windows CIFS/SMB) client to transfer files to/from the phone over the network.
6) make the phone a USB client.
7) bluetooth capability.
@Layton:
In order to switch access points, you will need a system to control the access point in order to have the seamless hand-off. This is something that the phones have no control over since they are “dumb devices.”
The AP controllers exist, however, due to costs, we have yet to bring a line on.
Have you tried out DECT?