similar to: Opinions on Cisco 7960G, Polycom IP-600, and Snom 360

Hello Although not stictly a asterisk issue, any help would be apreciated. Firstly a few notes on the snom 360, which I have had on a test bed for the last week. Its a great phone, with a good user interface, both physically and its web based one. At its lastest firmware it does have a few quirks, with regards to the way it handles usernames and passwords on the physical interface. These have

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

I have been struggling with this issue for about a year now. There were just too many IP phones to choose from at all sorts of price points and not enough information about any of them. Now I am looking at the situation again and if anything it has gotten worse. There are even more phones and all sorts of opinions. For every person that says phone x is great there is someone else complaining

I'm looking for some feedback on the Snom 360 phone. After deploying six of them to an office, I'm not as enthusiastic about them as I was when I was testing one before the deployment. The firmware seems to be consistently buggy, some of its problems are intermittent which makes it frustrating to troubleshoot and the support from Snom is lackluster to say the least. I find myself favoring

I am looking at phones for my asterisk system and seem to have a problem. The only Power over Ethernet phones I can find that support the IEEE standard are 3com. Cisco uses its own proprietary ( and is expensive to boot ), snom has a different but equally non-IEEE method, and i'm havent found another phone that I'm confident can do the job for our office. Whats a good high quality ip

Hi all, We are in the process of selection IP Phones to work with our *new* Asterisk PBX. We want to buy 4 for something less than 1000$ but with a nice set of features to work with our mail box, lines, good sound quality, full duplex (and maybe speaker phone). Any suggestions for something with good voice quality and not much troubles to setup with Asterisk? Voici quality is the most

I have a couple of Polycom phones, bootrom 2.5.0, SIP 1.3.1.0056. Works great with Asterisk when I power on the phone. However, after some time, say an hour, I cannot receive calls on this phone. On Asterisk, when I do "database show", it does show the phone in there, but it cannot reach the phone. Is there a way to keep alive the connection with Polycom? Any suggestions? Thanks, --

Hi all, I'm researching IP phones for a new office setup. We will need 30 phones. I have read the wiki and the polycom site for the phones, but I still had some questions about real world experience with these phones. -According to the documentation, the 500 series ( and 600, according to a polycom rep ) have built in hubs. Has anybody noticed performance issues in this setup, when

Hi, What is out there in terms of SIP enabled handsfree speakerphones? Looking for something that works well and also fits a low budget. I am used to using a Cisco 7940. It is a great phone but a bit expensive. Thought about the Polycom SoundPoint 300 until I realized that it does not include speakerphone functionality. Thanks, Adi

Hi, I have been out of touch with asterisk for quit some time and needed some recommendations. I am looking for SIP hardphone that works well with asterisk server. Pls suggest. cheers /ag -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20110212/ccd9d985/attachment.htm>

I've been following the list for months, and I have a working Asterisk setup, but it'd be *really* useful to me at this point if someone could summarize when Asterisk has echo problems and when it doesn't. For instance, I usually hear a far-end echo when talking on my 7940, but not when using a POTS phone plugged into a TDM400 FXO port. It doesn't seem to matter if the call

Hi We are about to buy several Snom phones. Does anyone have warnings or advices against these phones ? Our finalists were Cisco, Polycom and Snom. We will be using only the SIP protocol. Thanks Patrick

I need to buy some new phones for our own offices. I've used only Polycom phones until now, but I'd like to broaden my experience. I'm trying to decide which phones to experiment with. I have these options: - A combination of Polycom, Aastra and Snom - Just Polycom One the one hand, I'd like to keep things uniform, since it greatly simplifies provisioning. On the other hand, I

Hi List I'm getting this notification from my one and only SNOM 360 every time a number button is pushed. I know that it's only a notification, but it really irritates me. Is it anything I can/should do anything about ?? Oct 12 10:34:33 NOTICE[3566]: chan_sip.c:10530 handle_request: Unknown SIP command 'PUBLISH' from '192.168.100.100' By the way I'm

Hi, all I am in Australia and I have to setup Asterisk in few offices. There will be IP phones in each office and I must be able to call between offices. I need actual handsets. I need "standard" handsets to be used by people. Those must support features like CID, call forward, etc. --- your normal office feature set. Also I need some sort of more complex handset to be used by

A while back i had asked about possible replacements for snom 360 phones that were breaking and causing issues and we all discussed the problems we had with the 360s and some suggestions were made but the new polycom phones had just hit the market and not many people were able to comment on them. Basically i am looking to get some new phones and in the process get rid of the countless number of

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

I've just got a batch of 301s and 501s in and am trying to get them to work. I'd like to manually configure everything via FTP rather than the web or phone interfaces, but I can't seem to find a good source of definitions for all the options in the sip.cfg or phoneX.cfg files. Anyone know of any? Also, I'm having quite the problem getting the Polycom SP 501 to send *any*

Greetings all, My next step is to purchase a nice VoIP phone for my desk. I have a grandstream, and the sound is great, but I'm looking for more of an office style phone, preferably that can handle multiple lines, has a more flexible display (i.e. name as well as number). SIP would be preferable. Any suggestions? Thanks, Eric

Hi, I'm used to the Polycom 501, with a big message light indicator that flashes when I have a message waiting. As far as I can see when looking at pictures, the 601 (and 650) do not have this indicator light (nor does the 550 for that matter). How does it show the user that it has a message waiting? Regards, Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was