We have a bunch of 8440's and before those we had older model PTX150's. But we don't use Lync, at least not with these yet. I have them as standard SIP devices on my Mitel 5000. Once you get a tftp server properly set up with the phone configs you can config and launch them as fast as you can copy and paste. Our only bad experience with them is the fact we are a manufacturing environment with a lot of metallic dust and shavings. The phones didn't have any kind of protective cover over the ringer/speakerphone speaker and the ear speaker. We were killing the speakers with magnetic particles within weeks. Spectralink worked with us and came up with a fix to protect the speakers and replaced all our phones. We had the same problem with the older 150's and I can't believe they designed a new phone and totally forgot to fix that problem.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Greg Olson Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 4:15 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Lync Wireless phone question Hi All, I was wondering what experiences any of you have with Wireless phones for Lync (2010 or 2013)? I only seem to be able to find one "Certified" phone, the Polycom Spectralink 8440 series. It's a bit pricey though at 550.00 plus with a charger kit. I do see some other phones that seem to "work" with Lync, but have to have a server and usually other access points to translate between them and Lync, or there is something like the Snom M9 which seems to be like the Polycom 8440 type of phone, but not certified? None of these also seems to be "Optimized for Lync" either, but I guess that's just a limitation we'll have to live with for now. Anyone have any good or bad experiences with these, or other wireless phones for Lync? Thanks for your thoughts and advice in advance. -Greg
