Kyle Brocious over at the VOIP Insider blog wrote a good post describing as he puts it, “How To: Upload Firmware to a Polycom Unit.”
It’s a solid example of setting up a TFTP server to load new firmware to a Polycom SoundPoint SIP phone. I’ve been doing this for years.
It’s not quite a complete example of provisioning the phone as it doesn’t address loading the phones configuration from XML files on the server.
Today’s Squawk Box call on peer-to-peer SIP was very interesting. It had a nice slant towards SOHO and SMB VOIP installations, and went into a decent level of detail.
Dan York was the host, filling in for a vacationing Alec Saunders. His guest was David Bryan, co-chair of the IETF’s P2PSIP Working Group and also CEO of SIPpeerior Technologies.
After a final edit this product review is online at Small Net Builder.
I spent much of this past week in Los Angeles. I was all set to fly home Friday morning but my last meeting canceled so I got myself on the last flight out Thursday evening, a 6pm departure.
Except it wasn’t. Thunderstorms in Houston, and bad weather elsewhere in the east, had caused a myriad of delays and cancellations. My 6pm departure was pushed back until almost 9pm. No big deal. No point in making a fuss. It was still better than killing the next day getting home.
Besides, I could use the time to attend a conference call that I’d heard about. Iotum has launched a series of conference calls with interesting people to mark the introduction of their new Calliflower conference service. This past Thursday evening they interviewed William Shatner on the occasion of the release of his autobiography, “Up Till Now.”
I finally managed to accumulate enough experience using this device to get the review written. It's in the hands of the folks at Small Net Builder for a final polish before publication. It'll probably be online in a couple of…
It appears that the Polycom IP670 with the color backlit LCD is finally available for order. It also has gigabit ethernet like the IP560 released last fall. The IP650 (pictured right) that I've been using lately certainly benefits from the…