Cisco IP Phones

I highly recommend Cisco IP Phones, I use them in hostile environments like factories and they work very well.

1) Cisco IP Phones running FIPPA are very useful for 3rd line developers who need to use 100% of the resources of their workstation on developer activities. This means that the developer can continue to take calls even if his workstation is busy or rebooting.
2) Cisco IP phones are less useful for workers who work from home a few days a week. For those users we would suggest they use Jabber or a similar softphone.

Cisco IP Phones are very easy to troubleshoot. If any issues are there and if we can guide the user, he or she can easily do that, like changing the IP address manually, selecting the correct DHCP Server, and resetting/rebooting the Cisco IP Phones. So easily we can troubleshoot the Cisco IP Phones issues with minimal knowledge of users.

We used mostly the Cisco IP Phones in corporate offices, Call centers, Business side, Hospitals, and conference meetings with the team. It will be good for them. In call centers we used the advance call facilities, call recording, call waiting, call transferring.
Less Appropriate: - Solo Business - Small Company

It is well suited in service desks or operator offices, where maybe you have multiple lines, shared lines, call pickup and call park features.
Everywhere there is a contact center because it integrates well with contact center servers and give lot of feedback to users.

It is well suited for empowering your business with a new collaboration experience. It is not suited for video conferences.

I had to configure two IP phones with Cisco Switch and a router, and it worked out after I configured the switch and then the router. The IP phones were able to communicate with each other. After that I was able to call the other phone, for example by typing 1111, I was able to call the other IP phone that has this extension number.

The 8800 is will be suited for the majority of scenarios with IP Phone deployments. There are one-two cases I wouldn't consider. One If using a multi-person video call the camera does not have a high enough resolution. The other use case where the 8800 don't make sense is convivence phones as these only need to be 1 line.

Cisco IP Phones are suitable for absolutely any organization (using enterprise corporate IP telephony). Cisco also has lower-end models that even a very small organization can afford. There is also support for common standards, so you can use these devices with any PBX service. Excellent devices, I have been using them for many years and recommend them to everyone.

Well obviously being a hospital site we are heavily dependent on communication, so we heavily rely on the product. So less suited, I can't think of something.

We have found so many use cases for Cisco IP Phones and have not come across too many situations where they were not well suited, other than being mobile. We have moved to another Cisco Solution for Mobile communications. We have phones all over the place, in offices, in clinical areas, in lobby or public areas, and even in all of our conferencing and meeting spaces.

Cisco IP Phones work incredibly well in almost any business environment. The wide variety of offerings from Cisco really can cover almost any business scenario. The physical deskphone, such as this 8800, works particularly well in office settings, or in a small home office setup (like mine). The configuration of these Cisco IP Phones can be the difficult part, but it is never an impossible task.

These 8800 series Cisco IP Phones are likely a bit too nice to be used in dirty or industrial environments, where you would probably benefit from a more rugged and purpose-built phone. These might also be a bit expensive and have a few too many features for a common area "service" phone, such as waiting rooms, foyer locations, or something similar. Instead, there are lower-end models that would likely fit that need better.

Cisco IP Phones are the best. Whenever we have to compare phones Cisco IP Phones are the benchmark all the rest are compared to. Cisco IP Phones allow a separate voice vlan and a network port to also connect another device. Cisco IP Phones support a lot of features such as call forwarding, call parking, call divert among others. I cannot think of a scenario where a Cisco IP Phones was not well suited. Cisco has a variety of phones that caters to all our needs.

It's a go to product and like a "toyota" for phones.
Easy to use and setup, plenty of options to play around with. Customisable and anyone can use.
I have seen this model across Coles supermarket and Banks where people use them on daily basis.
Anything like an industrial site is not recommended ofcourse because it's not a "rugged" phone.

Its a robust design so it doesn't break easily. The 8865 includes a camera which has proven useful for video conferencing.
It connect to bluetooth devices easily. Also supports USB connectivity. Sits well on your desk or can be wall mounted. Slimline handset for easy use that is not on the heavy side.

In factory environment is it simple to use and in hospital example for emergency.

Cisco IP Phone 6800 Series are well suited for mainly mid-sized companies and people looking for easy to use IP phones with good set of features. Th Cisco IP Phone 6800 Series phones are a great solution for making calls and receiving calls both internally and externally(people from outside the company). The design of Cisco IP Phone 6800 Series phones is also very simplistic and does not cover a lot of space on the desk.

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Cisco IP Phone 7900 Series can be used in any IP phone scenario. It is recommended for intermediate use as it has advanced features that add more value to the user such as a speakerphone, headset, monochrome LCD screen, and HD Voice. But it doesn't have a color screen. The level of quality of the connections is excellent and it is a portable device with great construction and durability.

Cisco IP Phone 6800 Series is well suited at NOC/SOC, CallCenters, Reception Office, Home Office, Schools, Hospitals, Bus Station, Train Stations Embassy, etc. I think it is useful in the majority of the scenarios when you need to talk by phone. Less appropriate in Telepresences Environments and other scenarios where camera video is needed.

Very good for busy, every day use offices. Excellent choice for a cloud platform. These phones work well in conditions where everyday use and the occasional fall of the desk may occur as they are strongly built. They are also well suited for environments where an economical but reliable device is required and where gigabit ethernet is a must.

I'd recommend the conference phone 8831 for large rooms with more than 10 sits. For home workers I'd strongly recommend using the Cisco 8865 instead of 9971 devices. My only criticism about the 8865 models is the characters switch from alpha to numeric when entering login credentials. They are not intuitive.

Was very useful when trying to send a message to other employees within a team or to other employees in other teams.. it makes communication easy as one can choose to either send a message as broadcast or not. It hasn't been useful when a message to be conveyed must include images for visual.

The Cisco IP Phone 6800 Series multiplatform phones are built to be cost-effective. But, for many of my colleagues, it might not be the saving grace they need. What I mean is that for a large organization with a history of IP phones it is well and good, but it might be a bit too expensive for retailers.