[asterisk-users] SCCP Questions

[Patrick Lists]

On 13-06-12 23:09, Ron McCarthy wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Has anyone been running SCCP with a larger number of phones? Im looking
> to deploy like 75+ phones and I want to keep SCCP so I don't have to
> upgrade them and for the SLA, some phones also have no SIP software for
> them so im forced to keep SCCP. Does anyone have any experience with
> this? From what ive read the SCCP support works and works well, im just
> worried about trying to run this many phones and if im missing any sort
> of issues that could come up.

My experience goes back a couple of years with (iirc) an early version 
of Asterisk 1.4 and a bunch of Cisco 7941/7961 and entry-level Cisco 
phones. I can't recommend Cisco (having to pay for firmware with 
bugfixes?!). There were many problems with the SCCP channel driver and 
with Cisco's SIP firmware. In the end the customer just bought a Cisco 
PBX which is working fine to this day .

Admittedly this was a while back and maybe the various SCCP channel 
drivers out there have improved and maybe Cisco has improved (and hell 
is a bounty island). But I guess you (your customer) will have to find 
that out for yourself.

Good luck!

Regards,
Patrick