New Uniquiti SIP Phones
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This is part of a whole new line coming from Ubiquiti. Some really cool looking stuff.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Check out the amazing new Ubiquiti phones. Wifi, Android, central controller, Bluetooth....
This is fantastic; we're actually in the process of expanding pretty heavily so I put in a nice wink-wink-nudge-nudge.
On second thought they might just help feed the local Candy-Crush addictions, and offer no more productivity.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Video phone.
Touchscreen.Starting at $150.
How are they so cheap? I'm a pretty huge fan of Ubiquiti already.
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@thecreativeone91 Ubiquiti is good in general about lower cost manufacturing and passing the low cost on to the consumer. They have been in the WISP market for years and years. Their expansion into more networking is much appreciated. I really really want a switch and a phone now to tinker with.
These phones look like they are android based. So I am really hoping that they will release a softphone client to go along with the deskphone.
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@JaredBusch Yeah, I've been installing the AirMax/AirFiber for a good while. My last job, we used them for redundant links between our buildings all over the town, in case our Fiber went down; which it did a few times - always from public works digging and cutting them (splicing them was expensive).
I hope they make features to lockdown the normal android settings on it. Maybe a central management console for them would be great.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I hope they make features to lockdown the normal android settings on it. Maybe a central management console for them would be great.
They have some SDN (software defined netowrking) console coming for all their devices. I keep seeing it in screen shots, but have not poked on their site to see if it is released yet.
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Looks like they are going to be releasing their own PBX also? Not clear on that from the phone webpage.
The phone is SIP compliant though and will work on any standard system I would assume.
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Site says starting at $149 MSRP, so I would assume that is for the lowest model UVP. That model is touch screen, but no Bluetooth, WiFi, or video. The UVP-Pro is the same 5" model but has all of that.
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@JaredBusch said:
Looks like they are going to be releasing their own PBX also? Not clear on that from the phone webpage.
The phone is SIP compliant though and will work on any standard system I would assume.
No PBX suggested anywhere. They have a controller but not a PBX.
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I'm anxiously awaiting their new switches. I'm interested in those for sure.
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Their new UTM gateway is out mid-August. That looks good too.
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We had a large demo of the Mifi products given to use at my last job. They were pretty nice, we put them in all the server rooms to monitor everything. I still kinda wish they'd make proximity/rfid readers that open doors too.
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@scottalanmiller said:
No PBX suggested anywhere. They have a controller but not a PBX.
Unclear actually. I assume the same as you though.
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@JaredBusch the site says it connects to a PBX. Nothing suggested any call handling through the controller. The managing "like a PBX" suggests only that it hands out the management configs like many PBX do.
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Those are really impressive looking. I wonder if running Android on them will not cause a lot of unnecessary complications, though. Those phones will get used for so many different things and be so subject to malware and just junk being loaded onto them. Hopefully the controller allows for some actual management and locking down.
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This also means, I supposed, that Ubiquiti has effectively just gone 95% of the way towards being a PC maker. Androids as desktops are already out there, as rare and silly as they are. Put a bigger screen, more memory and a faster CPU in one of these phones, use the BlueTooth to hook up a keyboard and mouse and suddenly you have a full blown desktop for, say, $200! And instead of Active Directory, it has the Ubiquiti controller software.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
No PBX suggested anywhere. They have a controller but not a PBX.
Unclear actually. I assume the same as you though.
The guy on SW mentions that it has functionality like a PBX but Ubiquiti doesn't say that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
No PBX suggested anywhere. They have a controller but not a PBX.
Unclear actually. I assume the same as you though.
The guy on SW mentions that it has functionality like a PBX but Ubiquiti doesn't say that.
I have been offline all day so I have not kept up, but the initial posts on the Ubiquiti forums were also questioning this.
Again, I agree with you, but keeping an open mind.
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Looks like it WILL be a PBX.
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/029/970/trainn.jpg?1260328965That link clearly states that the SDN will perform the PBX functions.
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