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I don't know about going with the Grandstream phones in the long run. Many people here have a short temper and slam phones. They don't look like they're up to the abuse.

The Nortel Meridian's are great, they have an optical switch thing and are built of a good plastic. I bought a Cisco 7960 to play with and it's great, but definately a posh phone for people who treat office equipment gently, it definately wouldn't stand up to a Balmer-style rage. I think Cisco (or a company they bought) had some older cheap beige phones that I recall where pretty sturdy.

I plan to play with Asterisk soon, we only have three lines (2x voice and 1x fax/ADSL) and it would be nice to hook them all up with decent fax <> email along with voicemail and redirection. My boss and his friend work away from the office a lot so it would be useful to explore some of the different ways we can arrange the system. We don't actually use phones very much but it would be cool anyway

Gareth