All of the Polycom phones are the same. This Cisco 79XX will allow you to configure them but it is not as easy as it could be. A few of the Aastra phones had a fair interface for testing but I admit I have not used them in at least 2 years...
~ Andrew "lathama" Latham [email protected] * Learn more about OSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software * Learn more about Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux * Learn more about Tux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Alex Balashov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/25/2010 05:38 PM, Andrew Latham wrote: > >> I love my snom 360 for this. There is a sip trace and other >> diagnostics on the phone too... easy to use web interface... The >> 820/821 and 870 are the new sexy versions... > > Assuming the OP really meant "easily reconfigurable," not > "programmable," I definitely agree with you. Snom absolutely takes the > cake on this; you just put new values into the settings for a line > appearance, click Apply/OK/whatever, and they take effect in real time. > > The absolute dead-worst at this is Polycom, although that may be an > ignorant statement since I'm not familiar with their last few models > after the 501. But on the 501 and the 330, any settings change, no > matter how trivial, requires a complete reboot, and the reboot cycle is > long. Very long. And even after the phone appears to come back up, its > web interface is not accessible again for another few minutes > thereafter. Cisco 79xx with SIP image is similar. > > -- > Alex Balashov - Principal > Evariste Systems LLC > 1170 Peachtree Street > 12th Floor, Suite 1200 > Atlanta, GA 30309 > Tel: +1-678-954-0670 > Fax: +1-404-961-1892 > Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/ > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
