[*] Asterisk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 1

[Alex @ Kovasys Inc.]

John,

We have been reselling Polycom for the last 2 years at
www.VoIPGizmos.ca. The reason they do that is so that only certified
guys have access to that. Everyone does that Linksys, Cisco, etc.

To become certified - it is not that much of a problem. Let me know
which upgrade you need - I can email it to you - thanks.

-- 
Alex Kovalenko
Director of Operations
http://www.kovasys.com
alex at kovasys.com
Tel: 888.568.2747 x701

"IT Consulting & Staffing"
"Consultation et Recrutement en TI"




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> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:24:41 -0500
> From: John Lange <john at johnlange.ca>
> Subject: [*] All of a sudden, Polycom takes a dump
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> I was just starting to get enthusiastic again about the Polycom phones
> when they have inexplicable decided to slam the door shut again.
>
> Back in the early Asterisk days, Polycom phones were one of the few SIP
> compliant phones around. Unfortunately they refused to acknoledge the
> existance of Asterisk and would not sell phones to anyone who was not
> certified on one of their supported platforms. And of course Asterisk
> wasn't one of them.
>
> So you had to jump through all kinds of hoops if you wanted to get their
> phones.
>
> I for one refused to sell any Polycoms on this basis and instead tried
> Grandstream, then Linksys and more recently Aastra phones.
>
> Not that long ago I was enticed to take another look at Polycom and was
> happy to see that times have changed. The new Polycom even counts
> Asterisk as a certified platform and their phones are widely available.
>
> Now they've gone and done something stupid.
>
> They no long distribute firmware upgrades for their phones unless you
> are a certified reseller.
>
> What company in this day and age does not have firmware upgrades
> available on their web site?
>
> Goodbye Polycom, I hardly knew (the new) you.
>
> --
> John Lange
> www.johnlange.ca
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