[cisco-voip] 3rd party conference phones

[Scott Voll]

You are ALWAYS going to have wires.  if it's wireless it will always have a
minimum of power wires.

With that said, we had the same issue 2 years ago before the 8831 came
out.  We went with the FLX2 from revo labs like nick suggested.

everyone loved the fact that there was NO wires.  Here we are 2 years
later..... they are a pain to setup.  the batteries are shot so $$$ to
replace batteries.  vendor batteries for the phone, the mics, and the
speaker.  and we have had about 1/3 have issues that require base
replacement (known issue).   People are cranked that the last people didn't
put them on the charger so the batteries are dead when they need them.  you
don't just simply change out the mic or speaker as they are all sync'd
together.  it is a support problem.  (we really have a hard time not
telling them, we told them so).

So now as the base units keep failing, we are replacing them with the
8831's with the wireless mics.  yes they are made by revo labs also, but
they are built into CM and don't require an AD user for each phone like the
FLX2.

If revolabs is reading....... if you want to make these a valuable phone,
have cisco build it into CM.  Allow for easier syncing between devices for
replacing devices.  and fix the base units.  I think generally it's a nice
idea, just not fully baked.

YMMV

Scott


On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have an 8831 setup for that reason, but yeah the base has wires and
> dadgumit when i was big cheese at ohio state my conference phone didn't
> have wires! ;)
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Charles Goldsmith <wokka at justfamily.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Cisco 8831 has wireless mics, but the speaker/base is wired.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > I've had a few requests for "Wireless" conference phones lately for some
>> > medium sized rooms. In these cases the executive wants to get any
>> cables etc
>> > off the table, so a wired base station w/ cordless module for the table
>> fits
>> > the bill as much as a WiFi device would. And because "Wireless"!
>> >
>> > I'm curious what other people might be using, I see that polycom has the
>> > SoundStation2W that uses a POTS line. I've also had some folks using a
>> Jabra
>> > Speak510 paired with some of the bluetooth capable Cisco Phones, but
>> this
>> > only works well in small rooms.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> >
>> >
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