Deploying Polycom Phones Properly
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@WrCombs that's Mitel now. So... not good. High cost, meh quality.
No old school maker like Toshiba, NEC, etc. is known to be any good.
Basically the big players are people like Yealink and Snom. Second tier has Sangoma and Ubiquiti. Getting into many other names sends you down a rabbit hole of problems and cost.
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@scottalanmiller said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
@WrCombs that's Mitel now. So... not good. High cost, meh quality.
No old school maker like Toshiba, NEC, etc. is known to be any good.
Basically the big players are people like Yealink and Snom. Second tier has Sangoma and Ubiquiti. Getting into many other names sends you down a rabbit hole of problems and cost.
gotcha, thanks for explaining that
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@scottalanmiller said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
@WrCombs said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
what's the take on Toshiba Ip Series phones?
not even on the radar, Toshiba makes phone systems, do they sell phones?
Toshiba, technically Toshiba Unified Communications, no longer exists.
Mitel bought them in 2017.
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@scottalanmiller said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
@WrCombs that's Mitel now. So... not good. High cost, meh quality.
No old school maker like Toshiba, NEC, etc. is known to be any good.
Basically the big players are people like Yealink and Snom. Second tier has Sangoma and Ubiquiti. Getting into many other names sends you down a rabbit hole of problems and cost.
Current Grandstream models are supposed to be much improved. I have not yet gotten to test them myself though.
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@JaredBusch said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
@scottalanmiller said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
@WrCombs that's Mitel now. So... not good. High cost, meh quality.
No old school maker like Toshiba, NEC, etc. is known to be any good.
Basically the big players are people like Yealink and Snom. Second tier has Sangoma and Ubiquiti. Getting into many other names sends you down a rabbit hole of problems and cost.
Current Grandstream models are supposed to be much improved. I have not yet gotten to test them myself though.
And they weren't that bad before, just really cheap. But even in their cheap years were good value for cheap phones.
I forgot to list them. Worth considering.
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Not that my opinion matters much considering the scale of what @scottalanmiller and @JaredBusch deploy, but we've had good luck with the GXP-2170 Grandstream phones and FreePBX.
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So I should just get rid of the TOTE of 20 or so IP650 Polycom phones someone left on my desk?
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@jt1001001 said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
(for those not in the know, my desk often becomes the Junk/Recycle pile collection site for some reason)
Funny, mine does this as well, must be some kind of magnet. . .
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@DustinB3403 said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
@jt1001001 said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
(for those not in the know, my desk often becomes the Junk/Recycle pile collection site for some reason)
Funny, mine does this as well, must be some kind of magnet. . .
It's the same attitude that IT = takes care of all things that plug into a wall. It plugs in and I'm throwing it out, I bet the IT guy would like it.
Now let me introduce them to Mr Reality, the IT guy is just going to throw it away and be annoyed that he has to.
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@travisdh1 said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
@DustinB3403 said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
@jt1001001 said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
(for those not in the know, my desk often becomes the Junk/Recycle pile collection site for some reason)
Funny, mine does this as well, must be some kind of magnet. . .
It's the same attitude that IT = takes care of all things that plug into a wall. It plugs in and I'm throwing it out, I bet the IT guy would like it.
Now let me introduce them to Mr Reality, the IT guy is just going to throw it away and be annoyed that he has to.
No, a real IT staffer will ensure it is properly recycled.
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@jt1001001 said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:
So I should just get rid of the TOTE of 20 or so IP650 Polycom phones someone left on my desk?
(for those not in the know, my desk often becomes the Junk/Recycle pile collection site for some reason)I would. Or get them to eBay.
