----- Original Message ----- From: "Watkins, Bradley" <[email protected]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Productivity Suite on Polycom IP7000
> > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Karl Fife >> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5:42 PM >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion >> Subject: [asterisk-users] Productivity Suite on Polycom IP7000 >> >> Has anyone here ever actually truly successfully gotten a >> Polycom IP7000 to >> take a productivity suite license and enabled the bonus >> features like 4-way >> calling, recording etc? It ALWAYS works perfectly with ALL of our >> Soundpoint IP 5/6xx phones, but NEVER for our IP7000s. >> >> I just want to know it's POSSIBLE before I keep slogging away >> at this. Is >> there a 'bastard_phone=yes' setting that I need to toggle? >> Also, does >> anybody know any good therapists with a side-specialty of >> torn-out hair >> replacement? :-) > > According to the release notes (I'm looking at 3.2.3), 4-way > conferencing is not possible on the IP7000s. > > In fact, any of the features that are supported that would otherwise > require a Productivity License (LDAP, Conference Management) are > available without any license. > > Regards, > - Brad Thanks Brad. That matches my observation. It seems like such an ironic a feature omission as to be absurd. The expensive _conference_ phone seems (to me) to be precisely the most likely to support conference-like features. We actually first bumped into this 'problem' over a year ago when the phone was first released. We were early adopters. We put in support tickets in with Polycom but got no love. We gave up, only now revisiting it. You'd think someone in support might have known it was not supported way back then. What's most interesting about this is that if you look at the ORIGINAL productivity suite marketing Flash videos, they actually show FIVE-way [sic] conferencing on an IP670. That's five-way, as in YOU and 4 other callers. I suspect that 5-way was originally the hope, but in the real-world it ended up being too resource intensive to provide consistent quality. It seems reasonable that the feature may have simply been 'scaled back' from FIVE to FOUR-way calling on the IP6xx. By extension, perhaps the IP7000 (supporting full 14khz audio) found its 'real world' limit at THREE-way calling instead of FOUR. Just a WAG, but maybe a reasonable one. -Karl -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
