> If you do get a Polycom, the old 501 (discontinued) have a louder ring > (or can be configured to have a louder ring, don`t quite remember) > then the newer ones. But the others are right: it's not meant for > this, at least not in a noisy environment. What can work though is a > Polycom 321, with a (loud) speaker plugged into the 3.5mm port and > properly configured to have the speaker take the call (see paging app > and Polycom admin manual). It`s a bit of a hassle but it`s much > better than the unreliable and expensive Cyberdata paging products (I > hated the one I tried, replaced it with a 321 as described). > > Mike >
> Ah.. so you've used the Cyberdata intercom and didn't like it. What about it was unreliable? Thank you for the inp. ut. Not the intercom, the paging server. It was in a very active environment (car dealership, sometimes many pages per minute). It just stopped responding for a few minutes once in a while. The config is actually very easy. Under less load, it worked well. > What loud speaker did you end up going with? Polycom 321 with a 3.5mm plug to an external speaker. They already had something in place speaker-wise, so didn't bother checking. > Was it cumbersome (space-wise) to have a phone and a loudspeaker? Space wasn't an issue there, it was a Polycom 321 connected to a building-wide paging system in a server room. I imagine on a busy kitchen wall it's different. Mike -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
