Alex brings up a good point; high end headset compatibility. For some of our customers, this is critical. I myself almost never use the handset. All of our professional clients (legal, consulting, medical) have at least some high-end wireless headsets. Having the phone integrate seamlessly with those is very important. Grandstream and Polycom are two that are supported perfectly by Plantronics. Your customers may or may not demand this, but do consider it. On the headset front, I absolutely love the Plantronics integrated headset system that does desk phone, cell phone, and computer all in one base. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:30 AM Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
On 03/26/2015 01:26 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
The only time a customer has asked us for a Polycom specifically is for heavy speakerphone users.
I was a heavy speakerphone user. Now I'm a heavy user of the Plantronics CS540 DECT headset, which integrates very nicely with Polycoms and has an electronic hook-switch cable specifically for that purpose.
The overall build quality is also very good. It has a nice subjective "feel", just as the Cisco 79x series did.
As for provisioning and managing them, especially on a one-off basis, it is indeed a pain. Not nearly as much of a pain as Cisco, but a pain for sure. I think the easiest provisioning I've seen is from Snom.
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