[Freeswitch-users] SIP phones -

Michel Brabants michel.brabants at gmail.com
Mon Aug 19 19:53:11 MSD 2013 

Polycoms work fine with freeswitch. The bootserver-config contains more
options than you can configure using the phone, but you also have the
builtin webtool of the phone, but I didn't use that a lot yet. A bootserver
with a configfile gives you all the "power"..., but it isn't need to
register a phone with freeswitch. You can do that from the phone or the
web-interface of the polycom.

Michel

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Lawrence Conroy <lconroy at insensate.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi there again folks,
>  for clarification, I don't know about the "pure SIP" versions or Poly
> deskphones
> -- I whinged only about the Lync variants of their DECT phones.
> In my case, once you've had one of your users blame you for the setup and
> describe the
> Polycom kirk butterfly as looking like a sanitary towel (only less
> useful), it's hard
> to retain your enthusiasm.
>
> Do their pure SIP phones really need a separate boot server to be set up
> before they'll
> work properly? For central config sure, but for general operation of
> individual phones?
>
> Re. SIP Deskphones, the Aastras seem to be popular on site and work quite
> well.
> We have a couple of hundred of them, and with no failures (at all) yet, so
> they must be
> pretty robust.
>
> Older Cisco desk phones have left me with mental scars -- don't know about
> the new ones.
> [In the early days, Cisco's interpretation of SIP was kinda different,
> causing many debug
> sessions to find out what they needed]
> Grandstream 2K series worked, but suffered from unacceptable mains hum and
> odd little
> incompatibilities with fS.
> The Siemens/Gigaset SIP desk phones were pretty boring, IIRC, but had
> pretty good sound
>  quality.
> For the others, can't say.
>
> all the best,
>   Lawrence
>
>
> On 16 Aug 2013, at 13:34, Ken Rice wrote:
> > I’ve never found polycoms hard to debug or configure, you just need to
> set
> > up a proper boot server for them... Once you do that, the configs are
> > straight forward, and it’ll actually logs back to that server...
> >
> >
> > On 8/16/13 7:25 AM, "Peter Blackford" <peter at onemetric.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I HATE Polycoms they are hard to configure and hard to debug.
> >>
> >> I really like the Cisco SPA series as they are reliable however also
> hard to
> >> debug. Snoms and Yealinks are good and a lot easier to debug (Pulling
> packet
> >> captures directly from the phone makes life a lot easier)
> >>
> >> Just my 2c.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 16 August 2013 20:35, Lawrence Conroy <lconroy at insensate.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>> Hi Folks,
> >>>  +3 for the Gigasets. I have a number of these setups -- with different
> >>> handsets.
> >>> These are working fine with fS in all of my servers.
> >>> TL;DR: I paid my own money for two of these for my own use. My wife
> doesn't
> >>> know
> >>>  she's using SIP for all calls -- it's just a 'phone.
> >>>
> >>> Voice Quality seems to be good, range is excellent, battery life is
> fine
> >>> (though
> >>> they spend most of their time in the desk stands, charging).
> >>> I have not used bluetooth headsets with them, so can't talk on that.
> The 2.5
> >>> mm
> >>> audio connector works fine (some folk prefer clipping the phone to
> their
> >>> waist
> >>> and wearing a headset -- YMMV).
> >>> The N300A (consumer DECT SIP base station) voicemail is OK, but IMHO
> >>> over-compresses.
> >>> The in-built web server by which the base is configured is OK if slow.
> >>> Configuring the base via a connected handset is possible, but like
> every
> >>> manufacturer's
> >>> version of that I've seen, it's not recommended for mere mortals
> without a
> >>> lot of patience.
> >>> [...and apart from the annoyance of the battery compartment door
> falling open
> >>> if you
> >>> drop them, and the handset NOT being waterproof/toiletproof, they're
> >>> remarkably robust]
> >>>
> >>> As for Polycom, can't speak for the "straight" SIP versions, but I have
> >>> experience
> >>>  of their Lync DECT multicell system & handsets; IMHO these don't even
> reach
> >>> the
> >>>  'blows goats' level. Work has 50 of them; user feedback is that voice
> >>> quality,
> >>>  coverage, battery life is "not as good as we might hope".
> >>> Opinion seems to be that these are a step back from the siemens
> cellular DECT
> >>> 'phones we had on the old "steam" PBX (being polite).
> >>> Sigh.  For all portable systems, Try before you buy.
> >>>
> >>> all the best,
> >>>  Lawrence
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 16 Aug 2013, at 10:15, Andrew Cassidy wrote:
> >>>>> Polycom is the name I see the most on this list, I've some some
> experience
> >>>>> with Snom and Grandstream. The do the job but my favourites are Cisco
> >>>>> SPA50x series.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 16 August 2013 08:22, Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> Gigaset 610IP is a great cordless ip-phone. Works perfectly with
> >>>>>>> FreeSWITCH. You can also have several handsets served from one
> base.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>  ------------------------------
> >>>>>>> *From:* Karl Schmidt <karl at xtronics.com>
> >>>>>>> *To:* freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> >>>>>>> *Sent:* Friday, August 16, 2013 5:36 AM
> >>>>>>> *Subject:* [Freeswitch-users] SIP phones -
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I am thinking of getting a couple of SIP phones for our system - I
> see
> >>>>>>> some used on ebay.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Are there ones to avoid? Good ones to seek?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I have a couple of places where there needs to be a backup phone
> in case
> >>>>>>> the workstation is
> >>>>>>> rebooting. I can set up POE if that sounds like a good idea.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Depending on what happens, I could then start retiring some of the
> >>>>> analog
> >>>>>>> phones replacing with SIP
> >>>>>>> phones.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The bits I'm finding on the web is almost all by someone selling
> and
> >>>>>>> mostly spammy information. A
> >>>>>>> few clues could go a long way.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>> -----
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