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<FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>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... <BR>
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On 8/16/13 7:25 AM, "Peter Blackford" <<a href="peter@onemetric.com">peter@onemetric.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I HATE Polycoms they are hard to configure and hard to debug.<BR>
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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)<BR>
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Just my 2c.<BR>
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On 16 August 2013 20:35, Lawrence Conroy <<a href="lconroy@insensate.co.uk">lconroy@insensate.co.uk</a>> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi Folks,<BR>
+3 for the Gigasets. I have a number of these setups -- with different handsets.<BR>
These are working fine with fS in all of my servers.<BR>
TL;DR: I paid my own money for two of these for my own use. My wife doesn't know<BR>
she's using SIP for all calls -- it's just a 'phone.<BR>
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Voice Quality seems to be good, range is excellent, battery life is fine (though<BR>
they spend most of their time in the desk stands, charging).<BR>
I have not used bluetooth headsets with them, so can't talk on that. The 2.5 mm<BR>
audio connector works fine (some folk prefer clipping the phone to their waist<BR>
and wearing a headset -- YMMV).<BR>
The N300A (consumer DECT SIP base station) voicemail is OK, but IMHO over-compresses.<BR>
The in-built web server by which the base is configured is OK if slow.<BR>
Configuring the base via a connected handset is possible, but like every manufacturer's<BR>
version of that I've seen, it's not recommended for mere mortals without a lot of patience.<BR>
[...and apart from the annoyance of the battery compartment door falling open if you<BR>
drop them, and the handset NOT being waterproof/toiletproof, they're remarkably robust]<BR>
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As for Polycom, can't speak for the "straight" SIP versions, but I have experience<BR>
of their Lync DECT multicell system & handsets; IMHO these don't even reach the<BR>
'blows goats' level. Work has 50 of them; user feedback is that voice quality,<BR>
coverage, battery life is "not as good as we might hope".<BR>
Opinion seems to be that these are a step back from the siemens cellular DECT<BR>
'phones we had on the old "steam" PBX (being polite).<BR>
Sigh. For all portable systems, Try before you buy.<BR>
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all the best,<BR>
Lawrence<BR>
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On 16 Aug 2013, at 10:15, Andrew Cassidy wrote:<BR>
> Polycom is the name I see the most on this list, I've some some experience<BR>
> with Snom and Grandstream. The do the job but my favourites are Cisco<BR>
> SPA50x series.<BR>
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> On 16 August 2013 08:22, Stanislav Sinyagin <<a href="ssinyagin@yahoo.com">ssinyagin@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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>> Gigaset 610IP is a great cordless ip-phone. Works perfectly with<BR>
>> FreeSWITCH. You can also have several handsets served from one base.<BR>
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>> *From:* Karl Schmidt <<a href="karl@xtronics.com">karl@xtronics.com</a>><BR>
>> *To:* <a href="freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><BR>
>> *Sent:* Friday, August 16, 2013 5:36 AM<BR>
>> *Subject:* [Freeswitch-users] SIP phones -<BR>
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>> I am thinking of getting a couple of SIP phones for our system - I see<BR>
>> some used on ebay.<BR>
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>> Are there ones to avoid? Good ones to seek?<BR>
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>> I have a couple of places where there needs to be a backup phone in case<BR>
>> the workstation is<BR>
>> rebooting. I can set up POE if that sounds like a good idea.<BR>
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>> Depending on what happens, I could then start retiring some of the analog<BR>
>> phones replacing with SIP<BR>
>> phones.<BR>
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>> The bits I'm finding on the web is almost all by someone selling and<BR>
>> mostly spammy information. A<BR>
>> few clues could go a long way.<BR>
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