The 501 is more "weird" then that. The cat5 cable with the built in power injector is cool but to use it with a PoE (802.3af) switch you need a "special" cable (the pairs are just different you can probably look it up and make your own).
I believe the polycoms have MGCP and SIP support, no H323. Stick with SIP in my opinion. Justin On 4/29/07, David W. Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I could be wrong, but I believe that the newer Polycom's only support SIP. The 550 is PoE, but you don't have to power it with PoE. I have a 430 that uses an A/C adapter and regular Ethernet. I have a 501 that comes with a proprietary Ethernet cable that has an adapter built into the cable to plug the A/C adapter into. So, it's some kind of PoE, but I'm not sure what. I believe that any model of Polycom phone can be used with a regular Ethernet cable. The 501 is the only "weird" one with it's special cable. -----Original Message----- From: bilal ghayyad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:00 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Polycom 430 , 501 and 550 Hi List; Can someone advise me if Polycom support H323 that work fine with Asterisk? And wether this H323 Polcyom devices more costly than SIP Polycom. Also, I am not able to know if new Polycom come with PoE adaptor so no need for PoE Switch (can use normal switch that does not support PoE)? Do I need any special cable for Polycom or normal Ethernet cable? Regards Bilal __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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