The deafening silence : Polycom SoundPoint 501 worths every penny
Recently a Fonality Trixbox soft PBX server got racked to a cheap co-lo, where it enjoys a dedicated T1 line. Chatting using softphones such as X-lite, however, is mediocre at its best in sound quality. Yesterday, I got a Polycom SoundPoint 501 unit from http://www.pcconnection.com. It costs around USD 175. I was a bit skeptical about whether it worths every penny.
Well, it does worth every penny!
- Powered on the Polycom SoundPoint 501 unit.
- Set it on the phone to use my own Trixbox as its PBX server.
- Saved the config and Rebooted the phone.
- Once it got online on the network via DHCP, it pulled down the configuration and such directly from the trixbox TFTP server.
- An extension got assigned to it automatically.
I called and chatted. It took a bit for me to adjust my ears to the deafening silence!
I became so accustomed to constant static noise (and high-pitch sounds at times) with my VoIP service with a leading service provider.
No special tweaking had been done for this try-it-out trixbox server.
- No hardware (such as static-canceling daughter board) has been add.
- No QoS settings has been applied on the server or its next-hop router or firewall.
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