Hey, all. I’m in the middle of a rollout, and just learned that the
SoundPoint IP 430 — my favorite mid-range phone — has been discontinued.
The heir apparent is the SoundPoint IP 450 — for a low, low, low $130
more/handset. AND it doesn’t look as nice.

Ouch.

Does anyone have any recommendations — Polycom or otherwise — for a
good-quality, mid-range, two-line SIP phone (with good speakerphone) for
~$150/ea.? I realize that there are still some 430′s to be had, but they
won’t be around forever, and now might be the right time for me to be
moving forward.

Thanks,

-Ken

> In my experience, the 501 has very good speakerphone quality. It has 4
> programmable buttons so the cooks can hit one button and connect. We have
> one mounted on the wall in our computer room. Yes, the speaker is under the
> handset, but you could take the handset off and tape down the switch if
> needed. You could also cover the phone in “glad wrap” (except the speaker
> of course).
>

Is there a Polycom 501 that is POE and one that isn’t? Or all they all POE?

-Andy

Hi,

With my Gigaset C470IP (with latest 02223 firmware), I can’t find a way to
access SMS settings from web configuration app or using a handset.

Has someone been more successful without using auto-configuration mode ?

(For instance, manual says an SMS entry is showing on handset screen but as
I plugged my base station into a private LAN, I skipped the whole
auto-configuration process ).

Regards

Hi,

We have a user who is putting large call volumes through Asterisk, and
wants to BLF monitor up to 90 extensions. We are struggling to find a
handset that can keep up with Asterisk

1) Is there a handset that will do this?
2) Is there a different (standard) way to send BLF and allow directed pickups?
2a) Or even a handset specific way?

Asterisk handles the BLF volume fine, even on quite low-end hardware,
but we cannot find any handsets that can cope with it longer term.

Our test involves about 10 BLF-NOTIFY messages per second to each
handset with a 5-second pause every 5 seconds. This will either crash
or render unusable all of the following combinations:

snom360 + 1 x sidecar
Yealink T28 + 1 x sidecar
Yealink T28 + 2 x sidecar
Cisco SPA504g + 1 x sidecar
Cisco SPA504g + 2 x sidecar
Cisco SPA525g + 1 x sidecar (reboots often)
Cisco SPA525g + 2 x sidecar (reboots quickly)
Aastra 55i + non-LCD sidecar

Did not try Polycom as they do not do directed pickup and only small sidecars.
Linksys SPA962 with one sidecar is “OK” but is discontinued hardware.

Help?

Thanks,
Steve