<div>Adding to that. I can give you some scenario's in which the polycoms can crash in a HA-setup with 2 freeswitches (with firmware version 4), but there are way around it without reducing functionality (as far as we needed of course, but call-handling is fine. Didn't test BLF).</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Michel Brabants <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel.brabants@gmail.com" target="_blank">michel.brabants@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Lawrence Conroy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lconroy@insensate.co.uk" target="_blank">lconroy@insensate.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi there again folks,<br> for clarification, I don't know about the "pure SIP" versions or Poly deskphones<br>
-- I whinged only about the Lync variants of their DECT phones.<br>In my case, once you've had one of your users blame you for the setup and describe the<br>Polycom kirk butterfly as looking like a sanitary towel (only less useful), it's hard<br>
to retain your enthusiasm.<br><br>Do their pure SIP phones really need a separate boot server to be set up before they'll<br>work properly? For central config sure, but for general operation of individual phones?<br><br>
Re. SIP Deskphones, the Aastras seem to be popular on site and work quite well.<br>We have a couple of hundred of them, and with no failures (at all) yet, so they must be<br>pretty robust.<br><br>Older Cisco desk phones have left me with mental scars -- don't know about the new ones.<br>
[In the early days, Cisco's interpretation of SIP was kinda different, causing many debug<br>sessions to find out what they needed]<br>Grandstream 2K series worked, but suffered from unacceptable mains hum and odd little<br>
incompatibilities with fS.<br>The Siemens/Gigaset SIP desk phones were pretty boring, IIRC, but had pretty good sound<br> quality.<br>For the others, can't say.<br><br>all the best,<br> Lawrence<br>
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<div><br><br>On 16 Aug 2013, at 13:34, Ken Rice wrote:<br>> I’ve never found polycoms hard to debug or configure, you just need to set<br>> up a proper boot server for them... Once you do that, the configs are<br>> straight forward, and it’ll actually logs back to that server...<br>
><br>><br>> On 8/16/13 7:25 AM, "Peter Blackford" <<a href="mailto:peter@onemetric.com" target="_blank">peter@onemetric.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> I HATE Polycoms they are hard to configure and hard to debug.<br>
>><br>>> I really like the Cisco SPA series as they are reliable however also hard to<br>>> debug. Snoms and Yealinks are good and a lot easier to debug (Pulling packet<br>>> captures directly from the phone makes life a lot easier)<br>
>><br>>> Just my 2c.<br>>><br>>><br>>> On 16 August 2013 20:35, Lawrence Conroy <<a href="mailto:lconroy@insensate.co.uk" target="_blank">lconroy@insensate.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>>>> Hi Folks,<br>
>>> +3 for the Gigasets. I have a number of these setups -- with different<br>>>> 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<br>
>>> know<br>>>> she's using SIP for all calls -- it's just a 'phone.<br>>>><br>>>> Voice Quality seems to be good, range is excellent, battery life is fine<br>>>> (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<br>>>> mm<br>>>> audio connector works fine (some folk prefer clipping the phone to their<br>
>>> waist<br>>>> and wearing a headset -- YMMV).<br>>>> The N300A (consumer DECT SIP base station) voicemail is OK, but IMHO<br>>>> 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<br>>>> manufacturer's<br>>>> version of that I've seen, it's not recommended for mere mortals without a<br>
>>> lot of patience.<br>>>> [...and apart from the annoyance of the battery compartment door falling open<br>>>> if you<br>>>> drop them, and the handset NOT being waterproof/toiletproof, they're<br>
>>> remarkably robust]<br>>>><br>>>> As for Polycom, can't speak for the "straight" SIP versions, but I have<br>>>> experience<br>>>> of their Lync DECT multicell system & handsets; IMHO these don't even reach<br>
>>> the<br>>>> 'blows goats' level. Work has 50 of them; user feedback is that voice<br>>>> 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>
>>><br>>>> all the best,<br>>>> Lawrence<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> 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>>>>>><br>>>>>><br>>>>>> On 16 August 2013 08:22, Stanislav Sinyagin <<a href="mailto:ssinyagin@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ssinyagin@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>><br>>>>>>>> Gigaset 610IP is a great cordless ip-phone. Works perfectly with<br>>>>>>>> FreeSWITCH. You can also have several handsets served from one base.<br>
>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>> ------------------------------<br>>>>>>>> *From:* Karl Schmidt <<a href="mailto:karl@xtronics.com" target="_blank">karl@xtronics.com</a>><br>
>>>>>>> *To:* <a href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>>>>>>>> *Sent:* Friday, August 16, 2013 5:36 AM<br>
>>>>>>> *Subject:* [Freeswitch-users] SIP phones -<br>>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>> I am thinking of getting a couple of SIP phones for our system - I see<br>>>>>>>> some used on ebay.<br>
>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>> Are there ones to avoid? Good ones to seek?<br>>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>> 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>>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>> Depending on what happens, I could then start retiring some of the<br>
>>>>> analog<br>>>>>>>> phones replacing with SIP<br>>>>>>>> phones.<br>>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>> 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>>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>><br>>>>>>>><br>
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