[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960s and skinny

[Mahmoud Badran]

i have the cisco 7940 7960 phones and both i can use sip with asterisk?
how can i help?

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:48 +0100, Derek Conniffe wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I had the same situation -  I had a 7940 with only the callmanager 
> firmware but would have much rathered SIP.  You need to have a support 
> contrace with Cisco to be able to download the firmware from their website.
> 
> Thankfully the support contract only costs about $9 for the year - I was 
> able to buy the contract from CDW (lisajos at cdw.com) - the product code 
> for the contract is CON-SNT-CP7940 (replace the 7940 at the end with 
> 7960 for your phone).
> 
> I'm in Ireland so it seems there is no problem purchasing 
> internationally either.
> 
> Derek
> 
> Paul wrote:
> 
> >Do you still have that image for the 7960? I bought a 7940 on ebay and it
> >doesn't have the SIP firmware. I can't find it anywhere but Cisco's website
> >and they require that I have an account with them. Did you happen to save
> >that binary file?
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> >[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Andy Hamilton
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 16:38
> >To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960s and skinny
> >
> >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).
> >
> >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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