[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960s and skinny

[Derek Conniffe]

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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