[asterisk-users] Popular Gigabit Phones

[Andrew Latham]

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Matt Darnell <mattdarnell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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