Revolutionary Voice Quality
The Polycom SoundPoint IP 650 is the first IP phone to use Polycom’s revolutionary HD Voice technology to bring life-like richness and clarity to voice communications. Polycom HD Voice incorporates wideband audio for over twice the voice clarity, Polycom's patented Acoustic Clarity Technology, as well as best-in-class system design to deliver unprecedented voice quality.
Advanced Features and Applications
The Polycom SoundPoint IP 650 phone supports Microsoft® Live Communications Server 2005 for telephony and presence, and interoperates with Microsoft Office Communicator. It also features a USB port for future applications.
Enhanced Call Handling Capabilities
The Polycom SoundPoint IP 650 accommodates 6 lines in standalone mode, and 12 lines as an attendant console, when equipped with Polycom SoundPoint IP Expansion Modules. The Polycom SoundPoint IP 650 phone also supports shared call/bridged line appearance, an essential feature for effective phone interaction between executives and their assistants. The busy lamp field (BLF) functionality of the Polycom SoundPoint IP 650 enables phone attendants to monitor the on-hook / off-hook status of key contacts, and dispatch incoming calls for those contacts more efficiently.
Expandability
When equipped with up to three Expansion Modules, the Polycom SoundPoint IP 650 delivers the advanced call handling capabilities and enhanced user interface of a high-performance attendant console. Designed to improve productivity of telephone attendants, the SoundPoint IP attendant console allows effective, efficient management and monitoring of up to 24 simultaneous calls on up to 12 lines.
Intuitive User Interface
The SoundPoint IP 650 delivers all of its capabilities through an intuitive user interface, featuring a backlit 320x160 graphical grayscale LCD display, easy-to-navigate menu, and a combination of 26 dedicated hard keys and 4 context-sensitive soft keys for easy access to essential telephony features.
Efficient Installation and Provisioning
Designed to make installation, configuration, and upgrade as simple and efficient as possible, the Polycom SoundPoint IP 650 boasts a two-port Ethernet switch and integrated Power over Ethernet circuitry. The Polycom SoundPoint IP 650 can be centrally configured and upgraded in the field from an FTP, TFTP, HTTP4, or HTTPS4 server and supports provisioning server redundancy.
The SoundPoint IP 650 is designed to work with a wide range of VoIP trunk providers and VoIP based PBX's
Does not include AC power supply. If you are not using a PoE switch you need the Polycom power Adapter
Polycom SoundPoint IP 650 with PoE
IP 650 part number 2200-12651-025 does not include power supply.
IP (Internet Protocol)
A protocol that specifies the way data is broken into packets and the way those packets are addressed for transmission. Unlike traditional telephone lines which create a straight path from caller to recipient; IP uses the best available path at any given moment to move data packets between point A & point B. The beauty of IP is that the sending end and receiving end communicate success in sending and receiving to insure all data packets are delivered. A really great concept of IP is that of self healing. If a route is broken and the data packets cannot be delivered an alternate route is automatically selected.
LCD
The acronym for "Liquid Crystal Display". The most commonly used technology for numeric/text or graphical displays.
PoE (Power Over Ethernet)
Instead of being powered by a conventional AC plug-in type, the power comes through the ethernet cable connection. PoE reduces the amount of wires in an office. Data and power in a single cord.
Server
The central processor in a network. In our case the server supports the telephony functions in a VoIP network. It manages the connections between the phone lines and the telephones, voicemail, etc.
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
This is simply the carrying of voice via IP meaning a standard voice stream is broken into packets at the transmit end, sent over a standard data network (such as the Internet) and reassembled into a voice stream at the receiving end. VoIP traffic is trickier than normal data traffic because the timing of packets on the receiving end is critical. For more detail see Basics of the Internet.
