Re: [asterisk-biz] Grandstream v. Polycom

try snom, www.snom.com

 

 

On Feb 9, 2008 6:43 AM, Thomas Kenyon <digium@sanguinarius.co.uk> wrote:

Rob Peck wrote:
> John,
>
> As someone who has both deployed in an office setting (GXP-2000s and
> Polycom IP-330s, as well as a few PAPs and some other random crap), I
> can give you a little info. Both work with Asterisk, but I would
> recommend the Polycom. It's only about $30/each more for a better phone.
>
I must be the only person left that still likes GXP-2000s. When they
work, they're pretty good. (and have a fe wmore features than a 330).

I think I'm also the only person that thinks Polycom and Aastra phones
are just plain ugly.

> The GXP has some neat features, but the quality of construction and
> sound quality on the Polycoms is just so far ahead of the Grandstreams
> that it's not even in the same ballpark. The Polycoms are also far
> easier to provision (it's just simple XML).
>
Grandstream sadly have the habit of releasing broken firmwares, and
there are notoroiusly some phones with faulty hardware (which get replaced).

And admittedly provisioning can be a pain needing to encode the
configuration plan, and being capable of handling multiple config files.
(even with the old atcoms you could have a global config file with
default settings and a separate per-unit one).

I've not tried it, but the unencrypted GXP2000 config files look like a
small header and some URL-style form data at the end. You may be able to
make global changes as simply as:

sed -e -i 's/P625=0/P625=1' cfg*

Would presumably reconfigure all the phones to auto-answer on line 4.
(finding the keys is as simple as looking at the souce on one of the web
pages).

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