[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7920 phone

[John Todd]

>John Todd wrote....
>
>>  Cisco has an 802.11 phone called the 7920, which is apparently
>>  shipping now.  It is very expensive (>$550 USD) and only runs SCCP at
>>  the moment, which is Cisco's proprietary VoIP protocol.  However, if
>>  it falls in line with some of Cisco's other high-end VoIP equipment,
>>  that means it should have a trailing-edge SIP image running by
>>  December.  Despite Cisco's frequent stupidity when it comes to
>>  marketing decisions, they make some pretty nice gear and so I'm
>>  holding out for the 7920.
>>
>>  JT
>
>I have two on my desk. And very nice they are too. Found the hidden
>menus, from whence you can crank the power from standard 20mW
>to 100mW, for those "just gotta talk moments..."

Please, do tell!

>Battery lasts about 1 hour talk time, 8 hours standby...
>(but that was on the 20mW setting)...
>
>We are trying them out around Wellington, on the citywide
>Wifi network. They work very very well.
>
>Interesting menu options implying mechanisms to take the 11
>channels of WiFI, and dedicate 1-3 for voice, and turn the
>rest over to data. There were some rumours that they only
>work on Cisco Aironet base stations.... They work fine on
>DLink, Kamaguza, and Uncle Tom Cobblies base stations...
>
>SCCP only, and don't hold your breath....

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sccp/

SCCP for Asterisk as above.  I haven't been able to make it work, but 
that's because SCCP configuration menus suck, and I don't have any 
time to waste on it right now.

JT


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