I just installed a bunch of Poly 300's and 501's. Agreed the web
interface is something that you should avoid. Even configuring via the
phone is painful enough. But thier audio quality is far superior to
anything else I've used (especially for the money), and the 501's with
thier POE and speakerphone are leaps forward over the Sipura or
Budgetone. I've no other experience, then these but from my experience
the pain is worth the quality.
Mike
Jim Van Meggelen wrote:
John,
We do all our config through XML/FTP, so I couldn't comment on the web
interface. I never did like GUIs for this kind of stuff - especially not
when deploying large numbers of devices.
The reboot after every change is a pain, I admit, and Polycom ought to
try and do something about it. Still, mitigating it simply requires a
bit of planning. Also, most of the changes that would cause a reboot
aren't things you would typically do day-to-day on a live system.
I agree with you that they are not perfect, but I am very pleased with
them nonetheless.
Jim.
John Lange wrote:
Thanks for the information Jim.
Just curious why you think the Polycom's are a "treat" to work
with?
In our experience, the Polycom 300 is the worst designed
phone currently being sold for SIP bar none.
The web interface is terrible. Each page has dozens of
completely separate forms though this is not immediately
obvious to the user. If you make the mistake of editing
fields in several forms then "submit", only the info on the
one form gets saved.
And _every_ change causes the phone to completely reboot. Not
good since it takes > 5 minutes before the web interface
starts working again.
It's perfect if you like to spend 2 hours configuring each
phone.
On the other hand, quality of the phones seems very good and
if you forgo the web interface and just use tftp its probably
manageable.
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On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 17:06 -0500, Jim Van Meggelen wrote:
Folks,
When I found out about Polycom's approval of Asterisk
Business Edition for their sets, I was a bit sceptical.
Then, at Astricon, I noticed that NETXUSA was trying to sign
folks up for Polycom certification, and there didn't seem to
be any requirements with respect to what flavour of the
software was being sold.
To make a long story short, my company, Core Telecom
Innovations is now certified by Polycom on their SoundPoint
IP line of sets. The process was so smooth that we had it all
done almost before we realized what we were doing. I just did
an install in Calgary yesterday and those Polycom phones are
a treat to work with.
So just so you all know, Polycom supports Asterisk in all
it's flavours, not just ABE.
Regards,
Jim.
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