Polycom phones need additional manual intervention from the deployment technician due to the way these phones work.
To provision Polycom phones successfully, Polycom firmware files needs to be downloaded and extracted to the tftp folder on the server.
Polycom firmware packs can be downloaded from:
https://downloads.bicomsystems.com/polycom/
List of Polycom firmware compatibility with PBXware:
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PBXware 4.1+ = 5.4 firmware
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PBXware 4.1.3+ = 5.6 firmware
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PBXware 5.1.2+, 5.2.0+ = 5.7 firmware
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PBXware 5.2.6+, 5.3.2+ = 5.9 firmware (last version for VVX300, VVX400, VVX500 and VVX600)
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PBXware 5.2.8+, 5.3.4+ = 6.1 firmware (added support for VVX150, VVX250, VVX350 and VVX450)
This User Guide is written as general guide on how to set up Polycom Firmware pack on Your server.
¶ Firmware for Polycom VVX series devices
1.Connect to server via SSH:
ssh root@your-server-ip -p2020
Please make sure to replace your-server-ip with an actual ip address or domain name of your server.
2.Navigate to tftp folder
cd /opt/pbxware/pw/tftp
3.Download firmware pack for VVX series phones:
wget http://downloads.bicomsystems.com/polycom/polycom-latest-vvx.tar.bz2
Once you press enter, you should see something like this
wget http://downloads.bicomsystems.com/polycom/polycom-latest-vvx.tar.bz2
--2018-02-06 09:15:21-- http://downloads.bicomsystems.com/polycom/polycom-latest-vvx.tar.bz2
Resolving downloads.bicomsystems.com... 193.93.153.138
Connecting to downloads.bicomsystems.com|193.93.153.138|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 744382031 (710M) \[application/x-bzip\]
Saving to: 'polycom-latest-vvx.tar.bz2'
polycom-latest-vvx.tar.bz2 11%\[==========> \] 84.58M 177KB/s eta 61m 0s
Once download is completed, you must unpack the firmware archive.
tar xvjf polycom-latest-vvx.tar.bz2
¶ Firmware for Polycom IP series devices:
1.Connect to server via SSH:
ssh root@your-server-ip -p2020
Please make sure to replace your-server-ip with an actual ip address or domain name of your server.
2.Navigate to tftp folder
cd /opt/pbxware/pw/tftp
3.Download firmware pack for IP series phones:
wget http://downloads.bicomsystems.com/polycom/polycom-latest-ip.tar.bz2
Once you press enter, you should see something like this
wget http://downloads.bicomsystems.com/polycom/polycom-latest-ip.tar.bz2
--2018-02-06 09:15:21-- http://downloads.bicomsystems.com/polycom/polycom-latest-ip.tar.bz2
Resolving downloads.bicomsystems.com... 193.93.153.138 Connecting to downloads.bicomsystems.com|193.93.153.138|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 744382031 (710M) \[application/x-bzip\]
Saving to: 'polycom-latest-ip.tar.bz2'
polycom-latest-ip.tar.bz2 23%\[================> \] 124.58M 177KB/s eta 51m 10s
Once download is completed, you must unpack the firmware archive.
tar xvf polycom-latest-ip.tar.bz2
NOTE: If needed, firmware packs for both IP and VVX devices can be deployed at the same time, but you will be prompted to overwrite some files when you unpack second archive.
This is OK you just need to make sure to download firmware pack for IP series phones first.
- Navigate to Polycom folder
cd polycom
- Move all files and folders to the root of the tftp folder
mv * ../
Polycom firmware files are now ready for provisioning. If you are not sure how to prepare Polycom firmware package please contact our support and we will be glad to help you.