[asterisk-users] Popular Gigabit Phones

[Matt Darnell]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan Thurman <jthurman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Matt Darnell <mattdarnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Most manufacturers charge in excess of $80 to upgrade from a 10/100
>> switch to a 10/100/1000 switch built into the phone.
>> The cost might have been in the chipset 5 years ago but I can get a 5
>> port gigabit switch for $30.
>>
>> What are most folks using for people that need gigabit to the desktop
>> and don't want to run another cable?
>
> For our engineering staff we use Polycom SoundPoint IP 560's.  Cubes
> with two drops for heavy users who have to be dual homed were build
> without VoIP in mind (or an tech department at all for that matter)...
>  I haven't run iperf through them, so I don't have any performance
> statistics.  No one has complained except for our fiscal department,
> the phones do come at a premium above the standard phones =).
>
> -Jonathan

Thanks for the feedback on the 560's.  Polycom's are very well built phones.

I am surprised they don't offer a phone in the 3 series form factor
that has gigabit.  People must not be asking for it because the only
folks that seem to offer it are Polycom and Cisco (not the Linksys
rebrand).

-Matt