Has anyone used the Polycom HDvoice phone yet? I am curious if it uses a different codec. Does it actually sound any better?
Resellers claim it will ship in December or there abouts Uses g.722 About $30 more than 601 On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Forrest Beck wrote:> Has anyone used the Polycom HDvoice phone yet? I am curious if it > uses a different codec. Does it actually sound any better? > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
I've played with one, but they are not available yet from Polycom (as in shipping to distributors). They are only demoing the phones at the moment. I'm sure if anyone has gone to any VoIP trade-show (like VON) they would have seen and used one of these, but under Polycom environments. It uses the G.722 codec, this is HDVoice according to Polycom. It's "supposed" to sound better. Under Polycom demo conditions, it does sound better. Polycom has samples of the sound of the phones on their website I believe so you can hear for yourself, but I'm still skeptical of what it really will sound like until we all get the phones in our hands and installed on our "messed up Asterisk environments" (joke). :) Hope that helps some. Jessee Holmes Atacomm / Ataractic Corporation www.atacomm.com V: 1-877-700-VOIP jholmes@atacomm.com Looking for voice over IP products? Visit our VoIP store at http:// voipstore.atacomm.com/ On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Forrest Beck wrote:> Has anyone used the Polycom HDvoice phone yet? I am curious if it > uses a different codec. Does it actually sound any better? > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061013/2912dcae/attachment.htm
Actually, come to think of it, I don't know who will support it. Does Asterisk support G.722? From what I know it doesn't, is it included in the 1.4 beta? Will they support it? If Asterisk doesn't support it, then the phone won't do "HD" anyways. So then the questions comes to, what other PBX system or service provider will support this new "HD" standard? Jessee Holmes Atacomm / Ataractic Corporation www.atacomm.com V: 1-877-700-VOIP jholmes@atacomm.com Looking for voice over IP products? Visit our VoIP store at http:// voipstore.atacomm.com/ On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Forrest Beck wrote:> Has anyone used the Polycom HDvoice phone yet? I am curious if it > uses a different codec. Does it actually sound any better? > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061013/6fbe245b/attachment.htm