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| There is good information on this site about setting up a Polycom phone to work with ((Asterisk)), but it's rather spread out and unorganized, so I thought I'd take some time to get it all in one place. These instructions apply to the 501 models, but I believe they would adapt well to other Polycom models. I also don't go into pushing out configurations from XML files on a TFTP server, but it may be the way to go if you're doing more than one phone. In the instructions below, TFTP is only really used to push out the firmware updates.
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| -!!__About the Polycom 501__
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| If you're reading this to see how good certain phones are with Asterisk, let me tell you that the Polycom 501 has excellent features, but is a pain to configure and very tempermental. I've used Soyo phones (they're the worst all around), ipDialog phones (they're only a little better) and Grandstream's GXP-2000. As of firmware 1.0.1.9, the Grandstreams are a decent phone, easy and quick to configure, but they have a horrible echo in the speakerphone for the remote party. A firmware fix for this was promised in October 2005, but I decided to not wait and get some Polycom 501 phones as well, as Polycom phones are legendary for being excellent speakerphones, and the 501 model was their lowest priced speakerphone model. At time of this writing, Grandstream GXP-2000's are around $105, and Polycom 501's are around $190.
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| admin | | 2012-02-10 00:57 | 48 |