SIP in higher education

[Arthur Gaylord <>]

Alan,

We have a couple of the Polycom Soundstation IP 4000 conference phones 
which are quite nice. Since these won't be mass deployed I've been 
configuring them individually which isn't too hard.  People here like 
the fact that they can just plug the phone into any live network jack 
and have a quality conference phone. We loan them out through our Help 
Desk.  It has good microphone coverage even with just the default mic 
and you could add satellite pickups.  I put it in the corner of a 
roughly 20' X 25' room and it picked up someone speaking normally in the 
diagonally opposite corner just fine.  Of course, generally you'd want 
to put int near the middle of the room.

We haven't tried the desktop phones. Initially we were put off by the 
difficulty in configuring them for mass deployment and just haven't 
revisited them.

Art


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Arthur S. Gaylord
Director, Computer and Information Services
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole MA 02543


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