Poly VVX 501 12-line Business Media Phone (openSIP, dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports)

HIGH PERFORMANCE MADE EASY

Sophisticated. Sleek. Simple. The VVX 501 is a multi-tasker extraordinaire for today’s busy professionals, with crystal-clear conversation quality that keeps you organized with an efficient, personalized interface. IT will give it high marks for easy deployment and training, lower back-end costs and future-ready expandability. The Poly VVX® 501 performance business media phones unify superior voice capabilities and applications into a simple-to-use, yet high-performance unified communications (UC) solution. It is the ideal, all-in-one knowledge worker productivity tool, built to integrate seamlessly into a wide range of UC environments

KEY FEATURES:

• UNSURPASSED VOICE QUALITY & CLARITY: The Poly VVX 501 offers both Poly HD Voice™ and Poly Acoustic Fence™ technologies. Together, they dramatically improve the most important component of the VVX experience—voice clarity.
• SIMPLICITY & EASE OF USE: The Poly VVX 501 Business Media Phone is built for today’s busy managers and knowledge workers who need a powerful, expandable office phone that keeps up with their multitasking and schedule-juggling. Building on the behavior common to mobile phones, the multitouch, gesture-based user interface of the Polycom VVX 501 makes navigation intuitive and easy.
• MAXIMIZE PRODUCTIVITY: Designed for a broad range of environments from small and medium businesses to large enterprises, the Poly VVX 501 performance business media phone improves productivity by complementing the workplace applications on the user’s computer. Users benefit from such capabilities as viewing their Outlook calendar on the phone and receiving meeting reminders while still having access to their corporate directory—all while waiting for their PCs to boot. Users can also extend their PC desktop to include the Polycom VVX 501’s screen, helping to enable simplified interactions and dialing using their PC’s mouse and keyboard. Training and multipoint communication applications are complemented by the Polycom VVX 501 video playback capability for streaming content.
• BEST-IN-CLASS DEPOLYMENT & ADMINISTRATION: The Poly VVX 501 is easy to deploy and simple to manage. Its enterprise-grade, Web-based,  intuitive configuration method gives administrators the ability to easily set up and maintain a large number of phones throughout the entire enterprise. The built-in, broad interoperability capabilities allow IT departments to leverage previous IT infrastructure investments and achieve easy integration with third-party UC and productivity applications.
• HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE & EXPANDABLE: The Poly VVX 501 provides personalized information at a glance, through built-in Web applications and even a digital photo frame. Poly’s “My Info Portal” serves up stocks, news, sports, weather and other streamed content directly to the phone screen. The Poly VVX 501 is ready for future expansion modules and accessories for applications such as videoconferencing and even wireless networking.
• MARKET LEADING OPEN STANDARDS INTEROPERABILITY: Designed for enhanced interoperability, leveraging and complementing the other existing IT investments of any enterprise, the Poly VVX 501 delivers HD Voice™, a superior UC experience bundled with business applications. With the broadest call server interoperability in the industry, the Poly VVX 501 business media phone is a flexible foundation for any organization’s UC strategy.

SPECIFICATIONS:

USER INTERFACE FEATURES:

• Gesture based, multitouch capable capacitive touch-screen
  
• 3.5-in TFT LCD display at QVGA (320 x 240 pixel) resolution, 4:3 aspect ratio
  
• Screensaver and digital picture frame mode
  
• On-screen virtual keyboard
  
• Voicemail and videomail support *
  
• Dual USB ports (2.0 compliant) for media and storage applications
  
• Integrated Bluetooth® 2.1 EDR
  
• WebKit-based browser
• Adjustable base height
  
• Unicode UTF-8 character support.
• Multilingual user interface including: Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English (Canada/US/UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish

FEATURE KEYS:

• 4 context-sensitive “soft” keys
• 16 programmable line keys
• “Home” feature key
• 4-way navigation key cluster with center “Select” key
  
• 2 volume control keys
  
• Dedicated hold key
  
• Dedicated headset key
  
• Dedicated hands-free speakerphone key
  
• Dedicated microphone mute key

AUDIO FEATURES:

• HD Voice technology delivers life-like voice quality for each audio path handset, the hands-free speakerphone, and the optional headset.
• Acoustic Clarity™ technology providing full-duplex conversations, acoustic echo cancellation and background noise suppression
• Type 1 compliant (IEEE 1329 full duplex)
• Frequency response – 150 Hz – 7 kHz for hands-free speakerphone and optional headset mode
• Codecs: G.711 (A-law and μ-law), G.729AB, G.722
• Individual volume settings with visual feedback for each audio path
• Voice activity detection
• Comfort noise generation<
• DTMF tone generation (RFC 2833 and in-band)
• Low-delay audio packet transmission
• Adaptive jitter buffers
• Packet loss concealment

HEADSET & HANDSET COMPATIBILITY:

• Hearing aid compatibility to ITU-T P.370 and TIA 504A standards
• Dedicated RJ-9 headset port
• Hearing aid compatibility to ITU-T P.370 and TIA 504A standards
• Compliant with ADA Section 508 Subpart B 1194.23 (all)
• Hearing aid compatible (HAC) handset for magnetic coupling to hearing aids
• Compatible with commercially-available TTY adapter equipment

CALL HANDLING FEATURES:

• 12 SIP lines (registrations)
• Up to 24 simultaneous calls
• Shared call/bridged line appearance
• Flexible line appearance (one or more line keys can be assigned for phone’s registration)
• Distinctive incoming call treatment/call waiting
• Call timer and call waiting
• Call transfer, hold, divert (forward), pickup
• Called, calling, connected party information
• Local three-way audio conferencing
• 1-touch speed dial, redial
• Remote missed call notification
• Do not disturb function
• Electronic hook switch capable
• Local configurable digit map/dial plan
  
• Most software-enabled features and capabilities must be supported by the server. Please contact your IP PBX/Softswitch vendor or service provider for a list of supported features.

NETWORK & PROVISIONING:

• SIP Protocol Support
• SDP
• IETF SIP (RFC 3261 and companion RFCs)
• Two-port gigabit Ethernet switch 10/100/1000Base-TX across LAN and PC ports:
  
• Conforms to IEEE802.3-2005 (Clause 40) for physical media attachment
• Conforms to IEEE802.3-2002 (Clause 28) for link partner auto-negotiation
• Partner auto-negotiation
• DHCP network setup
• Manual or dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) network setup
• Time and date synchronization using SNTP
• FTP/FTPS/TFTP/HTTP/HTTPS server-based central provisioning for mass deployments
• Provisioning and call server redundancy supported
• QoS Support – IEEE 802.1p/Q tagging (VLAN), Layer 3 TOS, and DHCP
• VLAN - CDP, DHCP VLAN discovery, LLDP-MED for VLAN discovery
• Network Address Translation (NAT)– support for static configuration and “Keep-Alive” SIP signaling
• RTCP and RTP support
• Event logging
• Syslog
• Hardware diagnostics
• Status and statistics reporting
• TCP
• UDP
• DNS-SRV
• IPv4 and IPv6

SECURITY:

• 802.1X Authentication and EAPOL
• Media encryption via SRTP
• Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Encrypted configuration files
• Digest authentication
• Password login
• Support for URL syntax with password for boot server address
• HTTPS secure provisioning
• Support for signed software executables

POWER:

• Built-in auto-sensing IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet (Class 4).
• External universal AC adaptor (optional, 48V 0.52A DC)

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• VVX 501 console
  
• Handset with handset cord
  
• Network (LAN) cable - CAT-5E
  
• Quick Start Guide

WARRANTY:

• 2-year limited hardware replacement warranty against manufacturing defects.