[asterisk-biz] Grandstream v. Polycom

[Michael]

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On Feb 9, 2008 6:43 AM, Thomas Kenyon <digium at sanguinarius.co.uk> wrote:

> Rob Peck wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > As someone who has both deployed in an office setting (GXP-2000s and
> > Polycom IP-330s, as well as a few PAPs and some other random crap), I
> > can give you a little info. Both work with Asterisk, but I would
> > recommend the Polycom. It's only about $30/each more for a better phone.
> >
> I must be the only person left that still likes GXP-2000s. When they
> work, they're pretty good. (and have a fe wmore features than a 330).
>
> I think I'm also the only person that thinks Polycom and Aastra phones
> are just plain ugly.
>
> > The GXP has some neat features, but the quality of construction and
> > sound quality on the Polycoms is just so far ahead of the Grandstreams
> > that it's not even in the same ballpark. The Polycoms are also far
> > easier to provision (it's just simple XML).
> >
> Grandstream sadly have the habit of releasing broken firmwares, and
> there are notoroiusly some phones with faulty hardware (which get
> replaced).
>
> And admittedly provisioning can be a pain needing to encode the
> configuration plan, and being capable of handling multiple config files.
> (even with the old atcoms you could have a global config file with
> default settings and a separate per-unit one).
>
> I've not tried it, but the unencrypted GXP2000 config files look like a
> small header and some URL-style form data at the end. You may be able to
> make global changes as simply as:
>
> sed -e -i 's/P625=0/P625=1' cfg*
>
> Would presumably reconfigure all the phones to auto-answer on line 4.
> (finding the keys is as simple as looking at the souce on one of the web
> pages).
>
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