Thoughts on Shoreline IP Phone Switch...

[MattWray]

Anyone have any thoughts on the Shoreline IP Phone Switch. One of our corporate partners became a dealer and we will be installing them soon. Just want some opinions on what people think of the switch in theory, if you haven't used/seen one...

http://www.goshoreline.com

Thanks,

Matt Wray

 

[Pepperz]

I've been in the same boat, Matt. I've been on their website, and the Tolly reports seem to give Shoreline a lot of praise. Makes me think Tolly is a partner of some sorts. So, I went to the Tolly site and saw reports from several vendors. Went to the Avaya site, and they were boasting about their Tolly ratings as well. I'm looking at designing a VoIP network, myself, and asked one guy from a different company, and he recommended Shoreline. As the story goes, the problem with VoIP is not so much the equipment, as it is with the network - latency and jitter, etc. So far as shoreline is concerned, at this point, it looks fine.

 

[mattKnight]

Hi Matt,

From my perspective, I agree with Pepperz, that the network is where most of the VOIP problems come from. The quality (IMHO) of the VOIP system is how well it copes with a poor LAN.

Shoreline looks OK to me, the architecture is very like one of the systems we resell, which is quite robust...

Good luck with it

 

[MattWray]

Thanks guys! I appreciate the input, I guess only time will tell... Thanks,

Matt Wray

 

[hunterdw]

WE actually run a ShoreGear-12 in our small office.

We don't utilize it as much as we'd like, but so far it's just wonderful.

3 lines in the trunk group, about 8 extensions.

No problems! In fact, the big phatty $2500 Dell Server we bought for the Voicemail system has been replaced with a Pentium 266 with 32 RAM and 2Gig HDD. Zero performance differences.

Now we use that Server for actual work!

I'm sure as we explore more options here and there we might need to consider replacing the P266, but it's okay for now.

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