-----Original Message----- When I talked with the VP of VOIP phone sales at Polycom about a year ago, he was offering a dedicated engineer for the Asterisk community that would work through issues like people have here. BUT they would ONLY do this if a reseller came forward and committed to be the Polycom authorized reseller to Asterisk users and the dedicated engineer at Polycom would only talk to people at that reseller company. After wasting 3 months unsuccessfully trying to convince a half dozen resellers to be that company I gave up. That reseller would have to raise the prices to be able to support the phones, and as long as you can buy the Polycom phones at a lower cost from over a dozen companies that company would be losing a lot of business.
I didn't fault anyone at the reseller companies I talked to, they would be taking a risk by dedicating resources to supporting Asterisk with no guarantee of exclusivity from Polycom. The problem is with Polycom, they make about as much by Cisco selling a phone(from licensing of Polycom technology) as they do by selling their own phones(with many other costs and liabilities associated with it). They have no real incentive to go all out and compete with their biggest customers(Cisco, Avaya, etc...) So they don't try to make their phones a mass-market item. It's a shame, because I really like the Polycom phones and have several in our office. If someone else wants to take up the fight, contact me off list and I'll send you my contacts. MATT--- Matt, Can you please pass on the contacts to Rana Dutt at voicehigway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Ph: 732-705-9201. Voice Highway can be that reseller and can support this community. Voice Highway already sells the IAX2 enabled Netweb-301s and PAP2s. By the way VoiceHighway may also need a tonne of these for deployment ( Hush!Hush - guess where - for a City in Connecticut...) Seshu -------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
