In July I bought one from CDW for $280.75. Ty
-----Original Message----- From: hank smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:04 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP500 vs Cisco 7940 what is the price range in us dollars? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jody N. Rudolph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:32 AM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP500 vs Cisco 7940 > The Polycom IP500s do support customized ringtones and can use a > customized > ALERT_INFO for all of them. One thing that is worth noting in this > comparison is that the IP500 doesn't support the XHTML microbrowser that > the > IP600 does. Since they both use the same SIP application I am hoping they > enable this in future but as of now it doesn't work. I actually had 30 of > these before I found this out but would still recommend these over any > phone > in the price range. > > Jody N. Rudolph > Heartland Communications Internet Services, Inc > 1301 Boadway > Paducah, KY 42001 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Laird > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 1:06 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP500 vs Cisco 7940 > > > On Sep 9, 2004, at 9:53 AM, Matt G wrote: >> >> I've been asked to determine which phones our organization should go >> with. And I've narrowed it down to the Polycom IP500 or the Cisco >> 7940. >> >> From my travels through google, it's hard to find a definitive >> comparison of the two phones. So I thought I would ask the people that >> have probably used both. >> >> From what I can tell, the only major benefit the Cisco has over the >> Polycom is >> * 24 ring tones >> * XML support >> * Help Button >> * Larger Screen (is this true? 2x24 vs the 160x80 on the polycom) > > The screen on the Cisco isn't very big, either--192x96 or so, if I > remember correctly. I'm running 6.3 on my 7940, and I haven't seen the > ability to do anything interesting with ringtones. In theory, you can > feed new tones to it, but you can't use them for ALERT_INFO-driven > distinctive ringing. The XML support is okay, but rumors suggest that > the newest Polycom firmware supports something very close to XHTML, > which would be a lot more powerful then Cisco's sparsely-documented XML > dialect. > >> Another question that came up while discussing the Cisco phones was if >> the 24 ring tones are 'assignable' (ie, user calls in with callerid >> saying 'sales' and it rings a certain way, if they call in with >> callerid saying 'tech support' it rings something else). I couldn't >> find any information on this on google, so if anyone has the answer to >> this that would be great. > > I don't think it can do that. You can set ALERT_INFO in Asterisk to > Bellcore-drX, where X is 1..5, and the phone will ring slightly > differently, but that may or may not be good enough for your purposes. > >> Other than that, the polycom seems to have all the features we want, >> and according to the wiki works quite well with asterisk and has many >> features enabled that seem pretty interesting (MWI, etc). The Cisco's >> on the other hand seem less straightforward to configure and not as >> much talk on the wiki, nor support. > > MWI works just fine on the 7940, so I'm not sure that I'd count that as > an advantage for the Polycom. > > I haven't seen a Polycom in person, but I haven't heard anything bad > about them. My 7940 works well, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend > it, but for the money, the Polycom is quite likely a better phone. I > didn't find the 7940 to be particularly difficult to configure, > *EXCEPT* for the initial installation of the SIP firmware. It's a > multi-step upgrade, because you can't directly upgrade from the SCCP > image that it ships with to a modern SIP image. Once you get past > that, it isn't too bad, particularly if you have multiple phones. > > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ---------------------------------------- My Inbox is protected by SPAMfighter 1033 spam mails have been blocked so far. 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