SoundPointIP
The Polycom SoundPoint IP are a line of very nice VoIP phones for business use. The current model line-up includes:
I setup five IP500s last week and hooked them up to an Asterisk system. Since Polycom doesn’t offer support to anyone not certified by them, more on that later, I relied on VoIP-Info and #asterisk to figure things out. The IP phones are extremely configurable, allowing you to change everything from the sampled sounds they make to very low-level adjustments to the units handling of RTP packets.
The sound quality of the IP500 units that we have is terrific. The built-in full duplex speakerphone is also very good, though not quite as perfect as the purpose built conference phone, also from Polycom, that is used in the boardroom.
The look and feel of these units is very professional, much more so than many of the other competing products we looked at. Paul thinks that this is an important aspect when selling to business clients. The units are also well-priced.
Something I am disappointed is the lack of LDAP directory support. While the phones have the ability to load an XML formatted directory from their boot server, they will not periodically update from it. It would be far more integrated to simply use an LDAP tree for this purpose as Cisco does, I believe.
More information on these great IP phones is available on the wiki and at PolycomEmergencyDialplan.
hi, is a network required to get the phoen registered to * in terms of using tftp/ftp server to get config files from? I tried to set setting for ip 500 in through the webbrowser by setting register to user/pass of * server and sip server to my * server. there is never any register, i see nothing from sip debug. Not sure if I have to be getting special config files from tftp or something, any help appreciated.
You can indeed configure the SoundPoints using their built in web-based interface. I have a remote unit configured this way.
Sounds to me like your config is bad, as it it should work.
Normally, I put the server information in the SIP configuration section and the user information in the registration section.
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