The SoundPoint IP 600 is the early-2000s six-line manager phone — a 320×160 monochrome display, expansion module support, RJ9 headset jack. Pre-HD-voice; G.711 and G.729 only. EOL'd 2012; supported on voip.army's legacy provisioning network.
The SoundPoint IP 600 was Polycom's flagship receptionist/manager phone for the first half of the 2000s — released 2003, EOL'd 2012. Six SIP lines, a 320×160 monochrome display, expansion module support, the gold-standard Polycom SoundPoint audio path. It set the template for every business IP phone that followed.
It predates HD voice (G.711/G.729 narrowband only), which dates it audibly. On modern HD-capable PBXs and softphones, calls between a 600 and a current phone fall back to narrowband and sound noticeably worse than calls between two current endpoints.
For existing fleets: the 600 still provisions on voip.army's legacy VLAN under UCS 4.0.15, and expansion modules still work. For new orders, the modern equivalent is the VVX 401 (twelve lines, color, expansion modules, current firmware) or, if you want HD voice in the same SoundPoint family, the IP 650 is the direct HD successor.
| Display & user interface | |
| Display | Backlit 320×160 pixel monochrome graphical LCD |
| Line keys | 6 line keys with dual-color LEDs |
| Soft keys | Context-sensitive under the display |
| VoIP & SIP | |
| SIP accounts | 6 |
| SIP protocols | SIP v2 (RFC 3261), supported on voip.army's legacy provisioning VLAN with UCS firmware 4.0.15 |
| Codecs | G.711, G.729AB, G.726, iLBC |
| Audio | |
| Speaker | Full-duplex with Polycom Acoustic Clarity |
| HD voice | Narrowband only (G.711) |
| Headset | RJ9 headset jack |
| Connectivity | |
| Ethernet | Dual 10/100 Mbps |
| PoE | IEEE 802.3af Class 2 |
| Power & physical | |
| Power source | PoE 802.3af Class 2 (preferred) or Polycom power adapter (sold separately) |
| Weight | 1.18 kg |
| Dimensions | 265 × 175 × 195 mm |
| Wall-mountable | Yes |
| Lifecycle status | |
| EOL year | 2012 |
| Firmware on voip.army | Polycom UCS 4.0.15 (legacy provisioning VLAN) |
| voip.army stock | Refurbished / pre-owned, tested and re-flashed |
The SoundPoint IP 600 runs Polycom UCS firmware 4.0.15 — the last release that supports this hardware. It onboards onto voip.army the same way as any current phone, just on our legacy provisioning VLAN because the phone's TLS stack predates modern web standards. Call quality is normal SRTP.
Boot, fetch config from our provisioning server, register, ready. About one minute on a normal internet connection.
Run up to 6 simultaneous SIP registrations. Each line key has a dual-color LED for status.
Bringing your own? Send us the MAC, factory-reset, plug in. No charge to add it to the fleet.
Last firmware Polycom shipped for this phone (2018). Still works perfectly on voip.army; provisions over our isolated legacy VLAN because the phone can't speak TLS 1.2.
PC pass-through port on the back lets you daisy-chain a single ethernet drop to phone and computer.
Class 2. Any 802.3af-compliant switch from the last 15 years will power it without issue.
Send us a CSV of MAC addresses. We add them to the provisioning server, you factory-reset and plug in, they pick up their voip.army config within a minute.