[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7940 Phones as paging system?

[Carlton J. O'Riley]

The SIP 6.1 image has auto answer available, which would function the same
as the SCCP implementation. 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chris Travers
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 12:02 PM
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7940 Phones as paging system?

Hi all;

I have been searching for an answer to a question that a customer asked me
and I have only found a few older answers.  So, wanting to find out if
anyone has any experience with this issue and can help provide me with some
advice.

I have a customer which is strongly interested in using Asterisk as a PBX.
One of the core requirements, however, is that the system MUST be able to
support intercom/paging.  Having searched the archives, it appears that this
question was asked about 6 months ago, and the answer was that the Cisco
phones support this using SCCP and having one line set to auto-answer, but
at the time this was not supported in the SIP image.  Is this still the
case?

Although I know that SIP is the preferred protocol for connecting these
phones with Asterisk, how stable/reliable are the skinny channels?  Is there
any reason I should be rethinking this solution?

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Metatron Technology Consulting