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Database driven Polycom provisioning with Asterisk RealTime
Posted: January 9, 2013 Getting Started This page will make setting up Polycom phone extensions a breeze within your network. This was done with Polycom’s new 4.0.3 software for the current SoundPoint IP Series (450, 550, 650, etc), using Asterisk 11 on…
Read More »Polycom SoundPoint IP 450
Posted: June 28, 2011 The SoundPoint IP 450 desktop phone is designed to bring advanced telephony features and applications to cubicle/office workers handling a moderate volume of calls. With its high-resolution, graphical backlit display supporting multiple languages and Asian characters, applications enabled…
Read More »Polycom SoundPoint IP 335
Posted: June 28, 2011 The Polycom® SoundPoint® IP 335 phone is designed to bring a high-quality, cost effective solution to cubicle workers/call center operators through advanced telephony features and HD Voice technology, making voice communication more clear and productive. Utilizing its high…
Read More »Polycom SoundPoint IP 331
Posted: June 28, 2011 The SoundPoint IP 331 is a two-line SIP phone that delivers superb sound quality as well as a wide range of supported business telephony features. The SoundPoint IP 331 phone, with its dual-port 10/100 Ethernet switch for LAN…
Read More »Polycom Microbrowser
Posted: January 8, 2006 Most of the Polycom have a feature called Microbrowser – “a fully compliant HTTP/1.1 user agent” says Polycom docs – that allows browsing of simple XHTML web pages on the phone’s LCD screen. In addition, the microbrowser can…
Read More »Getting MWI on Polycom Phones to work with Asterisk
Posted: October 1, 2005 Getting MWI on Polycom Phones to work with Asterisk MWI is a feature that will flash the LED, and display an icon on the phone display when there’s a voicemail message waiting. On the Asterisk side of things,…
Read More »Polycom Phones: SoundPoint & SoundStation
Posted: September 30, 2005 List of features of the Polycom phones User can add/change their directory on the phone Config change /ringtone/directory is uploaded to server Configurable of different ringtone on the phone PER line Have a tone warning if call is…
Read More »Polycom SoundPoint IP 501
Posted: August 26, 2005 Information and Easy Configuration Guide for the Polycom 501 IP Phone and Asterisk There is good information on this site about setting up a Polycom phone to work with Asterisk, but it’s rather spread out and unorganized, so…
Read More »Polycom reboot hardphone script
Posted: May 25, 2005 A short PHP script to reboot extensions attached to an Asterisk PBX can be downloaded here. Some more detail about how it works can be found here. This script relies on the instructions below for configuring the sip-notify…
Read More »Polycom auto-answer config
Posted: March 31, 2005 Quick setup instructions: Put this in sip.cfg: <alertInfo voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.1.value=”Ring Answer” voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.1.class=”4″ /> <RING_ANSWER se.rt.4.name=”Ring Answer” se.rt.4.type=”ring-answer” se.rt.4.timeout=”2000″ se.rt.4.ringer=”2″ se.rt.4.callWait=”6″ se.rt.4.mod=”1″/> The alertInfo.1.class in this example is set to 4. As you can see the 4 corresponds to the…
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