similar to: Polycom Echo

Hi Everyone, I've been asked to determine which phones our organization should go with. And I've narrowed it down to the Polycom IP500 or the Cisco 7940. From my travels through google, it's hard to find a definitive comparison of the two phones. So I thought I would ask the people that have probably used both. From what I can tell, the only major benefit the Cisco has over the

Lately I have been experiencing a lot of echo from my Polycom phones. Only I hear the echo and it's not on every call. I've researched it via google and the forums and every echo problem usually relates when it's using a Zap card and not an IAX provider. Can anyone give me some advice or where to look to help solve this echo problem? This never occurs on any of our other phones,

I'll do that, but I'm sure that it's the Polycom :) Caller ID shows up fine on my 7960... W/ the name on top and the number below that. -- Executing NoOp("SIP/614-3ede", "Caller*ID is Matthew Marlowe <6092521155>") in new stack When the phone rings, only 'Matthew Marlowe' would display. When I answer, both the Name & Number will show.

I just got a Polycom soundpoint and I set it up using the phone and web based admin. I cant seem to figure out the config files and they are confusing me greatly and I dont have time for it :) Some things are odd, like on every reboot it seems the volume I set is reset? is there any way to fix that. And the ringer seems low. - Even all the way up Anyone willing to point out a good asterisk

In ipmid.cfg I have: <G3INTERCOM se.rt.10.name="G3INTERCOM" se.rt.4.type="ring-answer" se.rt.4.timeout="1000" se.rt.10.ringer="7"/> In sip.cfg I have: <alertInfo voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.1.value="G3INTERCOM" voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.1.class="10"/> I set up a test extension: exten =>

Is the 7905G Firmware the same as the 7960 firmware? -- MBM

Just out of curiosity, What version of CVS and Polycom SIP software are you running happily? Are you running SIP 2.3.0 yet? 2.2.0? 2.1.0? I tried upgrading the CVS yesterday, with a mixed mode of 2.2 and 2.1 with poor results. Transferring did not work as expected. Using the # key to do blind transfers after a call was on hold did not work. Just curious. Thanks, - Brent

I got most of the features of my phone working. Polycom TEch support refuses to help or even talk to me. So I'll have to ask here again. On incoming calls, only the NAME is displayed. I am trying to figure out how to get the NAME & NUMBER displayed. If anyone can help me do this it would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you in advance

Do the Polycom IP phones have some programmability so you can do some programmable phone buttons like you can on the Cisco phones? If there is programmability, such as for soft-keys and the like, how would you rate Polycom's vs Cisco's capabilities? And where can one find the programming documentation? Thanx. Ray. -- Scanned for viruses and dangerous content at

Has anyone been succesful pushing a VLAN setting to a Polycom phone via DHCP? I can push the boot server via option 66 but that is about it. I have set it for 'fixed' and tried many different option numbers with a couple differnet DHCP servers. SIP firmware 1.3.4 or 1.4.1 doesn't make a difference. Aloha, Matt

I have the following situation: Asterisk 1.2.1 25+ Polycom 501 telephones. Bootrom 2.6.2.0032 Application 1.6.2.0041 Some 501's local to my network, some across the great INTERNET divide. PRI connected to Sangoma card. Issue: horrible echo (and squeals, and "underwater-like" sound) on speaker phone when calling from extension to extension. echo not present when calling outbound

now that I have finally figured out what I was doing wrong with my polycom phone and got it to read the configuration file Im changing some gains. I successfully changed the gain for the ringer... It was too low for me. Does anyone know which gain would be for the call waiting and which tone would be for the "hands free" mode? Thanks

I've had an IP300 for a while now and it's been working fine. I just got an IP500 and when it connects to the FTP server it downloads the new bootrom and says error loading. The bootrom is fine and works on the 300... In addition, I downloaded a new copy to be sure and it still doesn't work. Can anyone give me some advice?

Hi all, I am working on building a new VoIP PBX. Looking at the current market for phones it seems my best "enterprise" options are the Cisco and Polycom phones. I have some experiance with the Cisco 7940G, but the process of flashing the phone with the SIP firmware left a bad taste in my mouth (not to mention the added expense for the phone). What is the general consensis about

PBX: Asterisk 1.4 Phones: PSTN phone connected to TDM400 X-Ten Lite Polycom 430 Scenario Polycom 430 = User1 User2 calls User1(Polycom 430) asks to be transfered to User3 User1 does an attended transfer using the trnsfr button on the polycom User2 is placed in music-on-hold User3s phone rings. (So far so good Right?) User3 picks up the phone to answer User2 only to

Does anybody happen to know the input power specs for the Polycom IP 500 and IP 600? We've mixed up our power supplies and we've got a whole box of them and can't figure out which go to the Polycoms. I would rather not kill the phones by trying random ones....

Wondering if anyone has experienced an intermittent one way audio (called party can not hear) problem in these conditions; Several IP501 phones local, same subnet. Remote asterisk No NAT anywhere Polycom IP501 ulaw only, canreinvite=yes Asterisk Call termination path is to a sonus GSX operated by the upstream carrier, ulaw only, canreinvite=no The idea is that if the Polycoms are

Hi All, Has anyone gotten the polycoms or the linksys phones to accept oprtion 66 on the dhcp request for the address of the tftp config server? We have the dhcp server issuing the proper IP of the tftp server, but the phones just sit there and never try to contact the tftp server for their configs. We can see the proper option going from the dhcp to the phones with ethereal trace. Thanks JR

Victor Hoodicoff wrote: > > > I think your impressions of Aastra are outdated. Install the latest > firmware, download the latest documentation and test and THEN give an > opinion! Did you miss the part when I wrote I have Asstras sitting on my desk collecting dust. I program on average about 5 per month, deal with about 40+ per day. They're as impressive as that Hyundai in

Anyone use the LDAP feature yet on the polycom phones? If so how well does it work? How are you using it in your environment? http://polycom.com/usa/en/products/voice/desktop/soundpoint_ip/applicati ons/corporate_directory_access.html Roy Anciso Director of Technology Manistee Intermediate School District 772 East Parkdale Avenue Manistee, MI 49660 Ph: 231-723-4264 Fx: 231-398-3036 roy at