I agree about external LAN's. They do not seem to be designed to work that well offsite, but for branches / homes with VPN routers, or in the local office you can't beat them.
As far as configuring them, it's not that hard, you edit your config files, and then write a script to handle the install once and you're finished. I've provisioned 40 phones in less then 10 minutes, if I had a barcode scanner that time would be even less. At another clients install, the phones took 20 minutes for 12 phones from start to finish. That included editing the script I was using, and adding a few second SIP registrations for addition extensions. The script takes a while to write, more if you're clumsy in Perl, but there are other scripts out there you can edit. Chad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 7, 2007 6:43 AM To: TAUG - Tech Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Polycoms too difficult to configure? I can only speak from my own experience and it was not a good one with POlycom. First, as far as I could tell they won't work on outside a LAN because they have no NAT or STUN. This makes them useless to my business. The other main problem is that they take so long to configure. I was disappointed with these phones and quite frankly when so many other phones are out there that work reasonably well I would have to pass on using these phones even if they were free. Henry Quoting Jim Van Meggelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Polycom's are really painful to configure via the web interface. > > If you have all the right files, in the right directory, with the > right FTP account set up, the polycoms are easy to work with. > > We're gonna do some polycom stuff in the cookbook (and the 2nd edition > of A:TFoT also has a polycom section). > > I have to say that most sets have some sort of FTP/TFTP config > options, and they are all similar, so if you get experience with any > of them, you will have an easier time with all of them. These are > skills that are really worth having, expecially if you are deploying > sets on a regular basis (and maintaining them remotely). > > Jim > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Simon P. Ditner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: May 3, 2007 9:00 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [on-asterisk] Polycoms too difficult to configure? > > > > Hi all, > > > > Reza commented the other day that no one seems to be interested in > > borrowing the Polycom phones because they were too difficult to > > configure, so I was wondering if this is the case, and if perhaps > > people had feedback about them that they would like passed on to > > Polycom... Send me your comments and gripes, and I'll forward them > > on to our rep. > > > > Cheers, > > spd > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional > > commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/785 - Release > > Date: 02/05/2007 2:16 PM > > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/787 - Release Date: > 03/05/2007 > 2:11 PM > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional > commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- 3webXS HiSpeed Dial-up...surf up to 5x faster than regular dial-up alone... just $14.90/mo...visit www.get3web.com for details --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
