[Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP500 vs Cisco 7940

[Ty Purcell]

In July I bought one from CDW for $280.75.

Ty

-----Original Message-----
From: hank smith [mailto:hank at hanksmith.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:04 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP500 vs Cisco 7940


what is the price range in us dollars?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jody N. Rudolph" <jody at hcis.net>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP500 vs Cisco 7940


> The Polycom IP500s do support customized ringtones and can use a 
> customized
> ALERT_INFO for all of them. One thing that is worth noting in this
> comparison is that the IP500 doesn't support the XHTML microbrowser that 
> the
> IP600 does. Since they both use the same SIP application I am hoping they
> enable this in future but as of now it doesn't work. I actually had 30 of
> these before I found this out but would still recommend these over any 
> phone
> in the price range.
>
> Jody N. Rudolph
> Heartland Communications Internet Services, Inc
> 1301 Boadway
> Paducah, KY 42001
> jody at hcis.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Scott Laird
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 1:06 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP500 vs Cisco 7940
>
>
> On Sep 9, 2004, at 9:53 AM, Matt G wrote:
>>
>> I've been asked to determine which phones our organization should go
>> with. And I've narrowed it down to the Polycom IP500 or the Cisco
>> 7940.
>>
>> From my travels through google, it's hard to find a definitive
>> comparison of the two phones. So I thought I would ask the people that
>> have probably used both.
>>
>> From what I can tell, the only major benefit the Cisco has over the
>> Polycom is
>> * 24 ring tones
>> * XML support
>> * Help Button
>> * Larger Screen (is this true? 2x24 vs the 160x80 on the polycom)
>
> The screen on the Cisco isn't very big, either--192x96 or so, if I
> remember correctly.  I'm running 6.3 on my 7940, and I haven't seen the
> ability to do anything interesting with ringtones.  In theory, you can
> feed new tones to it, but you can't use them for ALERT_INFO-driven
> distinctive ringing.  The XML support is okay, but rumors suggest that
> the newest Polycom firmware supports something very close to XHTML,
> which would be a lot more powerful then Cisco's sparsely-documented XML
> dialect.
>
>> Another question that came up while discussing the Cisco phones was if
>> the 24 ring tones are 'assignable' (ie, user calls in with callerid
>> saying 'sales' and it rings a certain way, if they call in with
>> callerid saying 'tech support' it rings something else). I couldn't
>> find any information on this on google, so if anyone has the answer to
>> this that would be great.
>
> I don't think it can do that.  You can set ALERT_INFO in Asterisk to
> Bellcore-drX, where X is 1..5, and the phone will ring slightly
> differently, but that may or may not be good enough for your purposes.
>
>> Other than that, the polycom seems to have all the features we want,
>> and according to the wiki works quite well with asterisk and has many
>> features enabled that seem pretty interesting (MWI, etc). The Cisco's
>> on the other hand seem less straightforward to configure and not as
>> much talk on the wiki, nor support.
>
> MWI works just fine on the 7940, so I'm not sure that I'd count that as
> an advantage for the Polycom.
>
> I haven't seen a Polycom in person, but I haven't heard anything bad
> about them.  My 7940 works well, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend
> it, but for the money, the Polycom is quite likely a better phone.  I
> didn't find the 7940 to be particularly difficult to configure,
> *EXCEPT* for the initial installation of the SIP firmware.  It's a
> multi-step upgrade, because you can't directly upgrade from the SCCP
> image that it ships with to a modern SIP image.  Once you get past
> that, it isn't too bad, particularly if you have multiple phones.
>
>
> Scott
>
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