[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960s and skinny

[Julien Goodwin]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:38:10PM -0500, Andy Hamilton arranged a set of bits into the following:
> Simon:
> 
> I have had Skinny going on a 7960 (which I then reimaged to SIP). I
> currently run a 7910 on Skinny (using chan_sccp) and use the
> aforementioned 7960 simultaneously.
> 
> Since you mentioned that you will have 50 phones, I assume you are
> using them in a business setting.  I would *highly* recommend using
> SIP, as I have found that the skinny driver is not as reliable as it
> could be (not criticizing Jan or Julien at all, here).
Even if you were, my own view is that chan_sccp is probably not the
thing to run on a client's PBX (not sure how good chan_skinny is, didn't
work the first time I tried which is why I do chan_sccp). My own
personal one, yes, a business where I worked full time and had
safe_asterisk or similar working, perhaps, anywhere else no.

My biggest task is getting in some of the big bugfixes and bad behavior
fixes that have been major issues. In testing at the moment is a fix to
allow speeddials to work at any time (meaning you could in theory create
a speeddial that auto-navigated a remote IVR), instead of crashing if
the handset was up. My next task is to get subscribe/notify working (if
anyone has looked at this code could they drop me a few pointers), which
should be pretty easy. Another thing which I might do is implement a
live/hot keypad so any keypress triggers a call, some people seem to
like this, but I personally can't stand it. (In any case it should be a
< 5 line patch if enabled all the time closer to 50 lines when you have
a per-device config option.

Also I've finally updated the web site to clean it up and hopefully add
some more info.

> Reimaging the 50 of them should only take a while (depending on what
> version of CCM they have at the moment). I reimaged 12 phones once for
> a business and it took less than 30 minutes after I got it going
> (toying with the phones to get them to take the image, exactly how the
> config files were to be set up, etc...).
> 
> I imagine you could easily get the whole thing done in less than a day
> (reimaging and config files), then figure out your dialplan.
> 
> Then there is the whole issue of writing the config files...but you'd
> have to do those with Skinny, anyhow.  I think with SIP you'll have
> much better reliability.
> 
> -Andy
> FWD: 428725
> 
> On Apr 12, 2005 12:48 PM, Morris, Simon <Simon.Morris at cmtww.com> wrote:
> >  
> > 
> > Hello,
> >  
> >  Does anyone else have * running with Cisco 7960 phones and skinny?
> >  
> >  All the advise I am reading so far is telling me to load the SIP image on
> > the phone but I'd like to know what I'm going to lose by persisting with
> > skinny
> >  
> >  (Not reimaging 50 phones is one benefit amongst others of skinny)
> >  
> >  Thanks for any comparisons you can provide
> >  
> >  Rgds
> >  
> >  ~sm 
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