Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) vs Yealink Conference Phones

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) is well suited for midrange environments. If you want to silo your communication and collaboration environment is easy to implement without effecting your datacenter environment (Storage,vCPU,vRAM). You have your own little island with the BE6000. And with a second pair, you could easily cluster your environment and have a redundant solution.

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Professional in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Yealink Conference Phones are well-suited for small to large-sized businesses. It provides excellent call quality in an easy-to-use interface which makes it perfect for any type of office or conference room. It does require power-over-ethernet, so you will require either a network switch with PoE or a separate adapter that will provide power to the phone.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Yealink Conference Phones

Hosted PBX

Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

User templates

Call reports

Directory of employee names

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Yealink Conference Phones

Answering rules

Call recording

Call park

Call screening

Message alerts

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Yealink Conference Phones

Video conferencing

Audio conferencing

Video screen sharing

Instant messaging

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Yealink Conference Phones

Mobile app for iOS

Mobile app for Android

Pros

It helps with easy installation and setup for new office / migration.
Supports Hybrid Cloud and on-prem deployments.
Scalable Solution - catering to upgrade from a legacy platform.

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Contributor in Engineering

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Easy-to-use menu interface
Bright and clear screen
Excellent call quality

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Engineer in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Cost could always be lower, but you get a solid product for your investment
Licensing can still be confusing if you need multiple products on the appliance
Redundancy/DR

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Eric Taylor

VoIP Network Administrator

Penn State UniversityHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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Admin menu options could be easier to reach.
Programming via the web interface requires some advanced knowledge.
Rebooting the phone takes a little longer than previously used systems.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) 8.2

Based on 1 answer

BE6K [is] not just a bare metal server ,it is [a] complete solution with its own management tools.

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Oleksandr Tsapenko

Business Development Manager/Product manager

Wise IT UkraineInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) 8.3

Based on 6 answers

Support for the Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) comes in the form of Cisco SmartNET or Cisco TAC Support. Cisco TAC Support thrives on providing an easy way to get support and they have never disappointed us, whether it was for hardware replacement or simple day-to-day questions that we needed answers to.

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Employee in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees

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Yealink Conference Phones 7.0

Based on 2 answers

I have only had to contact Yealink once in the entire time we have been using their phones. The issue was resolved quickly and did not impact our day-to-day business. Their website provides excellent support; user manuals are available, as well as firmware upgrades that you are able to download and install.

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Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We couldn't get the MiCollab to work properly. It always crashed. With Mitel, we couldn't change our provider to someone else that had more capability and less cost.

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Director in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

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We have used Aastra and Grandstream phones as well. The build quality and overall ease-of-use was not as good as the Yealink Conference Phones. Yealink simply works and does not require technical knowledge after it has been set up. The other phones needed more frequent reboots and configurations to get them to work properly.

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Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

This system facilities upgrading legacy phone systems to VoIP and lowers the total cost of ownership with cost-effective, time-saving operations.
Faster deployment times, with pre-installed, ready to use applications.
Support for Hybrid Cloud helps easier migration to cloud, if necessary.

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Contributor in Engineering

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Helps the organization conduct meetings over the phone, rather than meeting in person.
Saves time to be able to communicate in a quick, thorough manner.
Helps everyone stay in touch and eliminates potential business downtime.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Yealink Conference Phones

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Yealink Conference Phones

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Yealink Conference Phones

Likelihood to Recommend