[Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP 300 PoE?

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Noah Miller wrote:

> I'm ordering some more phones - I have the Polycom IP 500's now and I 
> like them.  I need some less expensive phones, and I'd like to stay 
> with all Polycoms for ease of administration.  I've heard, though, that 
> the IP 300's don't support PoE even though their brochures say they do. 
>   Has anybody have firsthand experience with them?  Is this true?

Yep. They have no onboard POE chip, hence the reduced cost. Polycom gets 
away saying they support POE by selling you at $40 cable that contains 
either a Cisco or 802.3af compliant dongle.

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