[Freeswitch-users] SIP phones -

Michel Brabants michel.brabants at gmail.com
Mon Aug 19 19:56:54 MSD 2013


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 at 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 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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