Vestalink Now "Supports Direct Integration With Google Voice"
LTN1:
What I would like to see is if the Vestalink ATA is as easy to configure as the OBi and whether it has as much quality programming as the OBi.
I would not jump on the Vestalink ATA so soon until it has proven itself. I suspect that a small company that is trying to do both as a service provider and competing in the ATA market with Obihai will likely not have as many resources in the R&D department as Obihai currently has.
Of course, I would still encourage Vestalink to compete--who knows, they may have just as good of a product in the future. The advantage that Vestalink has in R&D is a shortcut in reverse engineering what Obihai has done. That saves a lot of time and resources--especially if they reversed engineer the OBi, and use the same coding in their ATA.
RFC3261:
Quote from: ceg3 on March 22, 2015, 11:25:40 am
What is somewhat interesting is that you can use it as strictly a GV connected device at a very cheap cost...
Long term, or short term? Long term, if vestalink requires one to purchase their service to keep the device working (which I would expect) that means that after the 1st year you might be better off with an OBi (depending on which discount you get). And the details of how the GV integration works is a bit sparse (i.e. non-existent) on their web site. Does the GV traffic go through their servers (which means vestalink has to have the OAUTH token), or is it directly from your ATA (which gets the token)?
You are correct, for some, this will be an interesting offer. For me, I would want to know more before I made a commitment.
ceg3:
The Grandstream HT701 is a proven device. I think VL just replaced HT with VL. Don't get me wrong, as a former subscriber to VL I don't trust them very much at all. In fact, I would be dubious that you actually could use one of their ATA's to connect to GV without subscribing to Vestalink and I would never trade my OBi200 for a Grandstream.
SteveInWA:
As has been pointed out, this is just a Grandstream HT-701 ATA, with firmware provisioned and locked to a DID on VL. This is exactly the same way that Vonage sells their BasicTalk-branded HT-701 ATA, which would be locked to a BasicTalk DID registration.
There's nothing at all being done here with Google Voice, any different than using any other non-GV telephone number as a forwarding phone number from a GV number. The HT-701 has no Googley firmware capabilities at all.
lrosenman:
Quote from: SteveInWA on March 22, 2015, 06:42:45 pm
As has been pointed out, this is just a Grandstream HT-701 ATA, with firmware provisioned and locked to a DID on VL. This is exactly the same way that Vonage sells their BasicTalk-branded HT-701 ATA, which would be locked to a BasicTalk DID registration.
There's nothing at all being done here with Google Voice, any different than using any other non-GV telephone number as a forwarding phone number from a GV number. The HT-701 has no Googley firmware capabilities at all.
Why am I not surprised? The more I hear about Vestalink, the more I'm staying far away from them.
Sorry, Ryan, you lose.
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