[Asterisk-Users] Buying some Polycom IP300s

[brian at txshirts.com]

I tend to agree.
We own some Polycom 500's and a bunch of 841's.
the 500 looks nicer, but its an abolute PAIN to configure.
The 841 is simple, and does basically the same thing.
 
One of the bigger headaches we have had stemmed from putting the power
phone users on the 500's.  they aren't able to help the other users as
much because they don't have a 841.  You can tell the difference on the
sound and speakerphone features.  The polycom speakerphone and mic are
much much better.  But it's just a phone and most people have no idea
what they are.
 
In fact, I had a technician in house last week and he asked to use the
phone.  I pointed him to a SPA-841 and explained he was welcome to use
it and to make sure to hit Dial "like a cell phone" when he placed his
call.  After he was done 20 minutes later I asked what he thought of the
phone.  He asked why and I explained that it was a new VOIP phone and
that his call had gone across our network to the server and then out the
phone line.  He said he'd had no idea and that he was really impressed
with it.  I then spotted a phone I hadn't configured in the same area
and configured it in the space of about 5 minutes and when he asked to
call again I pointed to that phone and mentioned that it now worked just
like the other one. hehe.
 

Brian Greul 
Texas Shirt Company 
www.txshirts.com 
713-802-0369 / 713-861-6261 (fax) 

 

  _____  

From: Rod Bacon [mailto:rod.bacon at empoweredcomms.com.au] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:00 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Buying some Polycom IP300s


Over the last few weeks/months I have been testing phones and ATAs from
Grandstream (BT101, GXP2000, 286, 488), SNOM (190), Zyxel (Piece of
Crap), Sipura (SPA-2000, SPA-841) and I personally feel that the Sipura
SPA-841 is the best value, good quality phone that I have used. I
haven't used the polycoms yet, but I plan to in the next few weeks.
 
 
 

	----- Original Message ----- 
	From: Dan Morin <mailto:DMorin at ABBCOInc.com>  
	To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com 
	Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:22 AM
	Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Buying some Polycom IP300s

	Sorry =or the double post, I tried to paste and accidently sent
the email
	 
	I've been playing with Asterisk for a few =eeks now, and I've
gotten everything to work well with softphones, so I'm ready to =ove on
to normal VoIP phones.  I've been looking around and reading =omments
that people have had, and I was convinced that the Polycom IP300 was a
great =hone for a good price.  But, then I ran into this page, which has
been =pdate in the last few days:
	 
	http://w=w.voip-info.org/wiki-Polycom+SoundPoint+IP+500
<http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Polycom+SoundPoint+IP+500> <=DIV> 
	 
	The page in the wiki used to say that the =erson would not
recomed Polycom phones to anyone.  So anyway, I just want to =ake sure
that the IP300 is a good choice.  I don't want to get cheap phones =hat
aren't business quality, since I do play on using them for my business
=fter testing.  Also, is the IP500 worth the extra money?  What can =t
do that the IP300 can't.  And finally, will the IP300 do ulaw encoding?
	 
	Thanks in advance.

	
  _____  


	

	_______________________________________________
	Asterisk-Users mailing list
	Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
	http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
	To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
	   http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-user

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050404/551eeb4f/attachment.htm