[Asterisk-Users] Re: Cisco SIP license?

[Adthrawn]

Josh,

This is what I've understood it to be so far...

The phone(s) are available in two flavours:

79xx with Call Manager Single User License

79xx without Call Manager Single User License

These optional licenses (which can also be purchase separately, and are 
approx £10/$15) are to upgrade the number of users on the Cisco Call 
Manager Platform.

If you think about it, a number of other brands of PBX utilise the 
Cisco 79xx's, and Cisco does sell them with the aim of using them in 
non-Call Manager situations (otherwise, they'd have just stuck to SCCP, 
and never release MGCP or SIP firmware), so a cheaper version without 
the legality of Call Manager Licensing was produced. Not much saving? 
Well, depends how many you buy! And of course, how much more you spent 
for the extra licenses with the Call Manager itself (you don't want to 
double-spend when you're buying a $15,000 PBX).

The firmware is a different issue. To legally get the firmware, you 
must have a support contract. Where I am hazey, is whether any support 
contract between you and Cisco that gives you access to the TAC counts, 
or whether you need a TAC contract for every device you plan to load 
the firmware onto. Either way, with Cisco, if you can't get something 
without paying for it, then you can count on it being illegal if you 
don't!

I'll know on Monday, when I speak to my Cisco Rep next.

Best,
Ad.


On 3 Jan 2004, at 2:02 am, asterisk-users-request at lists.digium.com 
wrote:

> Message: 4
> From: "Josh Edwards" <joshlightdmx at hotmail.com>
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 01:48:38 +0000
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco SIP license?
> Reply-To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>
> In order to use a cisco phone and the SIP image, do you need a 
> license, or
> just the firmware.
>
> Is this like saying that you can get music, all you need is something 
> like
> kazza?  Or if you get the phone and the image are you legit?
>
>
> What does it take to get the lic?
>
> Josh
>
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