Contacted Scott Willard at Polycom this morning, he has since been reassigned to other duties within the organization. Mr. Willard's tone seemed optimistic, and he referrred me to Roger Austin, Regional Channel Manager for Voice.

Roger's reply to my inquiry is as follows:

"Cory,

We appreciate your interest in Polycom VoIP Phones.  Polycom deploys our
VoIP phones with our VoIP Platform partners and at this time those Partners
are Sphere, Broadsoft, Sylantro, and Interactive Intelligence.
Unfortunately we are not supporting the Asterisk solution at this time."

I am going to continue to pursue this, but this is the pushback I have gotten 
thusfar.  We are a Polycom authorized reseller, and have compiled some pretty 
detailed documentation of workarounds and fixes for typical Polycom/Asterisk 
integration issues.  My engineering folks monitor the forum(s) and I have 
encouraged them to respond to any developer posts where they feel they can 
offer some insight or solution.

From what I have seen/heard/read at least publically, Asterisk is still not registering on the radar of the larger vendors. I'm curious at what point this might change I guess we'll have to wait and see.


Cory Andrews
Senior Partner
VOIPSupply.com
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V: 800.398.VOIP X22
F: 716.630.1548
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----- Original Message -----

Hmm. Your own web site has it priced between the 500 and 600. If the
difference is good support versus zero support, wouldn't the $50
difference between the 500 and the 480i be saved in the first 20 minutes
you spend fighting with a problem? Another factor is that one company tests
with * and the other shuns it.


Just the availability of the firmware alone is almost worth the $50.


Just a heads-up for those that use the Sayson 480i phones...

Official word from Sayson is that their entire development team for the 480i has been reassigned to develop the firmware for the as yet unreleased 9113i phone. Firmware updates have been deferred for at least 3 months, with the much anticipated XML support being deferred as well.

Regerds,
Derek Bruce



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