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).
 
Michel


 
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Michel Brabants <michel.brabants@gmail.com> wrote:
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@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@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@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@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@xtronics.com>
>>>>>>> *To:* freeswitch-users@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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>>>>>>>
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