When someone wants to walk around the office with a phone, the Poly Rove is the answer. Two base stations (B1 and B4) cover every situation.
B1 for a single room or small office. B4 for larger floors, multiple floors, or outdoor coverage. Both pair with the same handset, the Rove 20.
Rove B1
The B1 is the simple one. One base station, one handset (the Rove 20), one extension registered. Plug the base into ethernet, power it, pair the handset, done.
Coverage is roughly what you expect from cordless DECT. A few thousand square feet in an open office, less if there are lots of interior walls. One base covers the front desk and a back office. It does not cover three floors of a warehouse.
Pick B1 for: a small office, a home office, a reception desk where someone occasionally walks to the back.
Rove B4
The B4 is the multi-cell base. It supports up to 8 handsets on a single base and, importantly, a second B4 can be added as a repeater to extend coverage.
Multi-cell means handsets hand off between bases as the user walks. You can carry a call down a hallway, across a floor, into a warehouse, with no drop. That is what DECT multi-cell is built for.
Pick B4 for: multi-floor offices, medical practices with treatment rooms down long halls, warehouses, any space where a B1 cannot reach corner to corner.
The repeater trick
A second B4 does not need its own extensions to be useful. Configured as a repeater, it just extends the coverage of the primary B4.
The practical setup: primary B4 in the front office, secondary B4 at the far end of the building acting as a repeater. Handsets roam between them. Users never notice which one they are on.
Multi-cell setup requires multicast provisioning and a chain ID configured during install. We handle this. Tell us the layout and we configure.
The handsets
Both B1 and B4 use the Poly Rove 20 handset. Bright color screen, HD voice, IP65 dust and water resistance, battery that runs most of the day.
Each handset registers as one extension. You can have multiple handsets on the same extension if multiple people share the phone, or separate handsets per user. Tell us which.
Same handset for both bases. The difference is coverage, not hardware in the hand.
Picking between them
Rough rules of thumb:
- One or two handsets, single room or small office: B1.
- Three or more handsets: B4.
- Coverage needs to span more than one floor or a long building: B4, possibly with a repeater.
- Unsure: start with B1. You can upgrade to B4 later. The handsets carry over.