[asterisk-users] Can Asterisk bridge between a SIP client and a Cisco Call Manager server?

[Shocky]

On Friday 10 April 2009 03:33:36 Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Shocky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to make and receive calls through a Cisco Call Manager server that
> > I have no control over. I have to use a Cisco soft phone (Cisco IP
> > Communicator), which only runs on Windows. But I'm on Linux. CCM is
> > apparently capable of supporting SIP and H.323 interfaces, but they won't
> > provide this option for me. Right now I'm using a VMWare XP guest to run
> > the soft phone, but this is painful (especially with some VPN
> > complications thrown in).
> >
> > I've read that Asterisk supports SCCP, at least somewhat. I'm wondering
> > if I could set up Asterisk on my desktop machine to route calls between a
> > SIP client such as Kphone or Ekiga and the CCM server. Would this be
> > possible?
> >
> > I heard that one of the problems in interfacing with CCM over SCCP is the
> > use of proprietary codecs. Would this be a problem in my case?
>
> I've never looked at SCCP, but if it does work then you could use the
> console phone built into asterisk rather than IP plumb it into a
> soft-phone... So asterisk is essentially acting as an SCCP soft-phone
> itself. No GUI though, but if you're happy typing commands... :)
>
> Gordon

That's somewhat encouraging. I'm sure I could get by without a GUI. I guess I 
need to look in more detail at the state of the SCCP support.

Thanks,

Shocky
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