re: Things to consider with non-certified OCS Voice Endpoints

markga — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:50:20 GMT

Jan,

Understood, I took that quote from the product team.

The point of the post was to clarify the differences between OCS certified and OCS ready. The good thing is you do have choices in your UC endpoints and if snom works for your environment great just be informed about the differences.

I don't run the certification program so I can't comment on that but I would love to see more UC endpoints certified including snom.

re: Things to consider with non-certified OCS Voice Endpoints

A happy snom 820 OCS edition user — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:15:37 GMT

Hello Mark,

thanks for this excerpt. One small part needs a correction: "We understand that snom IP phone vendor is offering IP phones..." ;)

It must be a singular not plural :) Anyway one newsletter which included this excerpt to all MS UC partners was the best advertisement for the vendor ever. They never received so much requests on one firmware. :)

I agree with all considerations mentioned before and also understand the challenge in support politic. But please also keep in mind there is no OIP program atm for ip-phone vendors to qualify or certify. Even all qualified devices are not certified, if you read the logo literal. Have you ever tried to get support from LG-Nortel or Polycom regarding the optimized for Communicator devices? Normally they will not be able to help and refer you to MS.

Please don't judge the big portfolio of unexpected devices too early. I think it is worth to get hands on the devices an see what they can. If you look at Tim's Blog http://snomocs.blogspot.com you get a feeling for the potential. Additionally you can combine this with the 870 movie on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i5-ypHHcH8

Regards,

Jan Boguslawski

btw: I am not a snom employee, just a principal supporter, who will not have any financial benefit.