asterisk users - Sep 2004 - Polycon IP 300 SIP vs Grandstream BT-101 Deployment

Hi,

I have just completed the deployment of a couple of Grandstream phones 
(for internal IP use) and was wondering how much harder it would be to 
deploy a Polycom IP 300 phone. The Grandstream was quite easy to deploy 
and gives us good voice quality over DSL, however from some of the 
previous posts I am see that some people had troubles with the Polycom 
300. The variant I am looking at purchasing is a SIP variant.

Any pointers / comments would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards
Stuart

Stuart,

I have 3 of the Polycom IP 300 SIP's.  The first two I bought were not sip
and I had to load the SIP firmware and application on them.  That was somewhat
involved, but not too difficult.  The third phone I bought with SIP on it.
I plugged it in, configured it, and it works great.  I really like the polycom
phones.  They have a superb speakerphone.
(you can hear quiet whispers and people tapping pens on the desk.)

We are using them over point to point T1's - so far our voice quality is
very good. I'm not sure how well it would sound over DSL.

I have mine configured to look at an FTP server to pull the config files from.  


Hope this helps.



Ty Purcell



-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Elvish [mailto:stuart.elvish@tnet.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:31 AM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Polycon IP 300 SIP vs Grandstream BT-101
Deployment


Hi,

I have just completed the deployment of a couple of Grandstream phones 
(for internal IP use) and was wondering how much harder it would be to 
deploy a Polycom IP 300 phone. The Grandstream was quite easy to deploy 
and gives us good voice quality over DSL, however from some of the 
previous posts I am see that some people had troubles with the Polycom 
300. The variant I am looking at purchasing is a SIP variant.

Any pointers / comments would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards
Stuart

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