DATA SHE ET
Polycom® VVX® 201 Business
Media Phone
Entry-level Two-line IP phone with HD sound quality
and 2 Ethernet ports
The Polycom® VVX® 201 is a simple, yet reliable, two-line IP phone, with two 10/100
Ethernet ports, that delivers enterprise grade sound quality. The Polycom VVX 201
phone is a stylish, cost eective telephony solution, ideal for retail environments,
call centers or shared/common areas, such as lobbies, hallways and break rooms or
anywhere needing simple and reliable connectivity.
Unsurpassed voice quality and clarity
The VVX 201 features full duplex Type 1-compliant speakerphone with legendary
Polycom
sound quality and enables noise- and echo-free conversations that are as natural as
being there.
®
HD Voice™ and Polycom® Acoustic Fence™ technology that delivers superior
Simplicity and ease-of-use
The Polycom V VX 201 comes with a familiar, intuitive user interface with multi-language
support that you can use without having to think about the “how to”. The phone features
a backlit LCD for improved readability.
Best-in-class deployment and administration
The VVX 201 phone is engineered to make installation, configuration, and upgrades
as simple and ecient as possible. An enterprise-grade, Web- based configuration
method allows administrators to easily provision and maintain a large number of phones
throughout an organization. Additionally, the extensive administrative feature set
included ensures that hosted service providers have the latest technologies to integrate
the VVX 201 seamlessly into their existing telephony environment.
Benefits
• Ideal for call centers, retail
environments and for shared/
common-areas
• Make more ecient and productive
calls with Polycom’s HD Voice
technology
• Deploy the VVX 201 in hosted or
premise-based environments
• Reduce deployment and
maintenance costs—the Polycom
Zero Touch Provisioning and webbased configuration tool makes the
VVX 201 simple to deploy, easy to
administer, upgrade, and maintain
• Leverage previous IT infrastructure
investments—deploy VVX 201
business media phones on your
existing network without needing
to upgrade your call control
platform
Broad and robust interoperability
The VVX 201 is designed for interoperability and is certified to interoperate with the
industry’s broadest range of PBX systems and SIP call control platforms.
DATA SHEET Polycom® VVX® 201 Business Media Phone
Polycom VVX 201 Specifications
User interface features
• 2.5 in Graphical Backlit LCD
(132 x 64) resolution
• Voicemail support
• Reversible deskstand/wallmount
• 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
• 2 line keys with bi-color (red/green) LED
• “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
• Polycom HD Voice technology delivers
life-like voice quality for each audio pathhandset, the hands-free speakerphone,
and the optional headset
• Polycom
®
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, handset and
optional headset mode
• Codecs: G.711 (A-law and μ-law),
G.729AB, G.722 (HD Voice), iLBC
• 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 buers
• Packet loss concealment
Headset and handset compatibility
• Dedicated RJ-9 headset port
• Hearing aid compatibility to ITU-T P.370
and TIA 504A standards
• Compliant with ADA Section 508 Subpar t
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
1
• 2 SIP identities (registrations)
• 2 programmable line keys
• Shared call/bridged line appearance
• Flexible line appearance (one or two
line keys can be assigned for each
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
• One-touch speed dial, redial
• Remote missed call notification
• Do not disturb function
• Electronic hook switch capable
• Local configurable digit map/dial plan
Open Application Platform
• Supports Polycom Apps SDK and API
for third- party business and personal
applications
2
• Bundled with Polycom UC Software:
- Corporate Directory Access
using LDAP
- Visual Conference Management
Network and provisioning
• SIP Protocol Support
• SDP
• IETF SIP (RFC 3261 and companion RFCs)
• Two-port Ethernet switch
• 10/100Base-TX across LAN and PC Ports
• Manual or dynamic host configuration
protocol (DHCP) network setup
• Time and date synchronization using
SNTP
• FTP/FTPS/TFTP/HTTP/HTTPS serverbased 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)
– suppor t 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
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 2)
• External Universal AC Adapter
(optional, 12V 6W DC)
Approvals
• FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) Class B
• ICES-003 Class B
• EN55022 Class B
• CISPR22 Class B
• VCCI Class B
• EN55024
• EN61000-3-2; EN61000-3-3
• NZ Telepermit
• UAE TRA
• Australia RCM
• ROHS compliant
• ICASA
• CITC
• ANATEL
• Customs Union
• KCC
• TAA
• CCC
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Safety
• UL 60950-1
• CE Mark
• CAN/CSA C22.2 No 60950-1
• EN 60950-1
• IEC 60950-1
• AS/NZS 60950-1