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Most or our readers are likely familiar with Asterisk Open Source PBX, but for those of you who aren’t, Polycom has recently put together an easy to follow technical bulletin on using their SoundPoint IP Phones with Asterisk.
This document covers all the basics of integrating Polycom IP phones with your Asterisk PBX. Key topics [...]

Polycom’s 3.2.0 SIP Firmware is set to be released very soon. Some of you may not be too inclined as 3.2.0 brings some drastic changes for certain Soundpoint IP Phones, leaving some in the dust while enhancing and adding new features to others.
If you don’t know already, Polycom has or will be discontinuing the [...]

Polycom has announced the release of two new entry level IP phones within the popular SoundPoint Series, the Soundpoint IP321 and SoundPoint IP331.
These new phone models will reportedly replace the popular IP320 and IP330 models, and will add additional on-board memory to support future feature enhancements. The Polycom SoundPoint IP321 and IP331 are otherwise [...]

Polycom has just released new SIP firmware version 3.1.2, and it can be found here. This release is identical to the SIP 3.1.2 release with the addition of software and configuration parameters applicable to the VVX 1500 phone.
Here are a few of the highlights:

SIP 3.1.2 includes GA level support for SoundStation IP 7000 integration [...]

Recently, VoIP Supply had a technical support case dealing with SLA or Shared Line Appearance functionality. More specifically, the case dealt with a Polycom Soundpoint IP Phone. When I first opened the case, I was aware that the “shared” line option was available on the Polycom phones. This option is “plain as day” on the Web GUI Line tabs. Simply select the “shared” radio button on the two Polycom phones you would like to share and voila, right?…wrong!!!! SLA is considered a “server side” or IP PBX function, the phones can support only what is being pushed to them.

Today’s discussion will be on Polycom and how to upload the latest Firmware. For some of you this will be a repetitive read, if you have done this before, but for those just starting out in the industry, or just wanting to learn some new information on VoIP, then this is for you. It will just take a little time, some elbow grease and some hardware.