SIP in higher education

[Alan Crosswell <>]

Art,

According to the spec sheet, they support TFTP config similar to the Cisco
phones, so I'm a little puzzled about your comment w.r.t. mass configuration
difficulty.  Can you elaborate?
/a

Arthur Gaylord wrote:
> 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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