I have a similar installation of Asterisk and I was looking into the Polycom IP600 phones. I spoke with Polycom sales to verify the multiple line appearance and they said it would work. More specifically, if lines 1-3 all contain the same SIP registration info, the Polycom will only send out 1 SIP registration to the server and then handle the calls ringing on multiple lines.
I was wondering if anyone can confirm that this works with the polycoms. I know the 7960s support this, but I want to make sure the Polycom sales team wasn't just saying Yes to make the sale. Any comments are appreciated. -Eric -----Original Message----- Subject: fwd on busy when calling multiple extensions at once Chris A. Icide wrote: > IMHO, the Polycom IP600 is a superior phone to the cisco 79XX phones. > I base this off of having had both an IP600 and a 7960. The two > advantages the 7960 had over the IP600 was appearance and ease of > configuration. Outside of that, the IP600 (IMHO) beat the cisco hands > down. > > Now, you MAY want to try registering all 6 lines on the polycom to the > same line and see if the phone handles that as well as the cisco. If > it does, then you are set. Otherwise, you will need some complex > configuration work in your extensions.conf to achieve what you are > looking to achieve. > > Some thoughts: > > What do you want to happen when one of the call takers has all 6 lines > in use? > > Have you considered using queues to do what you need? > > -Chris > > On 10:08 AM 5/22/2004, Brian Cuthie wrote: > > > >You might consider using the Cisco SIP phones. They're smart enough > >to accept incoming calls for as many call appearances you have with > >the same SIP registration. > > > >-brian > > > >Tor Roberts wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> I am setting up a dispatch center where will have 4 call takers, > >> all with Polycom IP 600 Sip phones. Each phone will be setup with 6 > >> extensions each. When a new call comes in, the first extension on > >> all the phones will ring. This works fine, the problem is when one > >> of the dispatchers is already using her first extension and another > >> call comes in. What happens now is that the remaining 3 phones ring > >> on the first extension, but the dispatcher who is on a call, her > >> phone does not ring. I want her second extension ring along with > >> the other 3 phones first extensions. > >> > >> In sip.conf I have all the extensions set to incominglimit=1 and > >> the pertinent part of extensions.conf is: > >> > >> exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/5000&SIP5001&SIP5002&SIP5003,20,tr) > >> exten => s,2,Dial(SIP/5004&SIP5005&SIP5006&SIP5007,20,tr) > >> > >> and so on. > >> > >> If anybody has any insight, or a better solution, that would be great. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> -Tor Roberts _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users