[Asterisk-biz] New Linksys Products Shipping

[Saul Diaz]

Greg Boehnlein wrote:

>On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Jonathan k. Creasy wrote:
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>>I should have been more clear. I was talking about the IP301 which
>>doesn't have a full-duplex speakerphone. (Something I can't really
>>understand)
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>Huh? The IP301 can't really be considered a Speaker Phone, as it has no 
>microphone whatsoever. Full Duplex, Half Duplex don't apply when you have 
>one way audio and no Microphone.
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>The IP 500, 600, 501 and 601 have GREAT speakerphones, which far surpass 
>the Cisco 7960 in quality and tonality. While Cisco may have licensed some 
>technology from Polycom, their implementation of it pretty much sucks 
>compared to the Soundpoint series.
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>The new Linksys SPA-941 looks like an updated Sipura SPA-841 in a weird, 
>hybrid Cisco/Sipura case. You now have the Cisco coloring and such..
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>But... 
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>Sipura == Cisco now
>Linksys == Cisco now
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>So.. who knows what is REALLY inside the thing? Maybe I'll get one, 
>dissassmble it and post comparison pics against the Sipura SPA-841 and 
>we'll see what is what..
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That  will be definitelly nice too see. my guess they take the sipura as 
it is with a few network improve from linksys.. and the voice license 
from polycom...

but definitelly the polycom 601 sounds much better than a cisco 7960.... 
i never saw an speaker so powerfull... in a phone .... we have 2 of 
those in a call center and u can CLEARLY hear from meters away.

i wish they were more cheaper :))

the snom 360 is a nice phone but the spearkerphone is way far from cisco 
and polycom.

and grandstream well why talk about...

still cisco takes the sipura out of the callcenter i think.. 170.xx for 
a phone that was 7x.... 841 was a good phone..... and cheap...

regards
SAul