The 501 is more "weird" then that. The cat5 cable with the built in power injector is cool but to use it with a PoE (802.3af) switch you need a "special" cable (the pairs are just different you can probably look it up and make your own).
<br><br>I believe the polycoms have MGCP and SIP support, no H323. Stick with SIP in my opinion.<br><br>Justin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David W. Rice</b> <<a href="mailto:rice@lexingtonitconsulting.com">
rice@lexingtonitconsulting.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I could be wrong, but I believe that the newer Polycom's only support
<br>SIP. The 550 is PoE, but you don't have to power it with PoE. I have a<br>430 that uses an A/C adapter and regular Ethernet. I have a 501 that<br>comes with a proprietary Ethernet cable that has an adapter built into
<br>the cable to plug the A/C adapter into. So, it's some kind of PoE, but<br>I'm not sure what. I believe that any model of Polycom phone can be<br>used with a regular Ethernet cable.<br><br>The 501 is the only "weird" one with it's special cable.
<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: bilal ghayyad [mailto:<a href="mailto:bilmar_gh@yahoo.com">bilmar_gh@yahoo.com</a>]<br>Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:00 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">
asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a><br>Subject: [asterisk-users] Polycom 430 , 501 and 550<br><br>Hi List;<br><br>Can someone advise me if Polycom support H323 that<br>work fine with Asterisk? And wether this H323 Polcyom
<br>devices more costly than SIP Polycom.<br><br>Also, I am not able to know if new Polycom come with<br>PoE adaptor so no need for PoE Switch (can use normal<br>switch that does not support PoE)? Do I need any<br>special cable for Polycom or normal Ethernet cable?
<br><br>Regards<br>Bilal<br><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around<br><a href="http://mail.yahoo.com">http://mail.yahoo.com
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