[Asterisk-Users] Polycom 500, asterisk user opinions?

Steve Maroney steve at stevenet.net
Thu Dec 2 12:21:16 MST 2004


The power supply and injector cable that comes with the IP500 works fine
on the IP300. Ive used both phones side by side.. then decvided to plug
the IP500 power cable into the IP300 and it worked.


Thank you,
Steve Maroney

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Noah Miller wrote:
>
> > This is correct - the IP 600 has a built-in PoE chip to do 802.3af with
> > any vanilla ethernet cable.  The IP 300 and 500 models do not have this
> > chip, so they require special cables (the chip is built into the
> > cable).  I just got a shipment of 19 (18 IP500's and 1 IP300) of them
> > drop-shipped directly from Polycom, and they did not come with 802.3af
> > cables.  They only came with a special ethernet injector cable for using
> > an AC adaptor wall plug.
>
> I'd be happy to see IP300s starting to arrive with that cable; all the
> ones we've gotten to date just come with the power supply cube and it
> had to be plugged directly into the phone. If they _at least_ came with
> the same injector cable that the IP500s do that would a major
> improvement IMO.
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