[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960 SIP Firmware

[Ed Greenberg]

I wonder if VoipSupply can sell the maintenance contract for the phone? 
Wouldn't hurt to ask. The fellow from VS is a regular poster over on the 
asterisk-biz list.

--On Saturday, March 19, 2005 11:09 AM -0600 Jerry <jjones at quiddesign.com> 
wrote:

> I would suggest contacting a dealer until you find one who will sell you
> a maintenance contract for the phone. Last I checked, over a year ago,
> they were somewhere around $10-$20. Once you have a contract you may
> register online and download all the software you need. However to use
> legally you would have the pay the ~$50 license fee for SIP.
>
> On Mar 18, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Patrick M. Gray, Jr. wrote:
>
>> That seems to be what the various documents I've stumbled across seem
>> to
>> indicate.  Maybe it's too late at night and my brain is shot, but
>> Cisco's
>> documentation on the upgrade path seems a little confusing...  Would
>> you
>> mind giving me a brief summary of the upgrade path to the latest
>> firmware if
>> you know it, starting from P003AM30?
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Pedro
>> Sent: Friday, 18 March, 2005 22:13
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960 SIP Firmware
>>
>> Just a note that you will need to perform quite a few incremental
>> upgrades to get to a current firmware version.  So if you do get
>> someone who will sell you the firmware, make sure you get the all of
>> them.
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:04:29 -0500, Patrick M. Gray, Jr.
>> <patgrayjr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I got a new old stock Cisco 7960 from eBay and the warranty expired
>>> bay in
>>> 2001 according to Cisco (I didn't even know they had VoIP in 2001 ;-)
>>> ).
>> I
>>> spoke with a wonderfully rude gentleman at Cisco who told me there was
>>> nothing that could be done to get SIP firmware for the device, and
>>> would
>> not
>>> even entertain the possibility of purchasing said FW from Cisco.  He
>>> suggested I call a local reseller, and the single one I called was not
>>> interested in helping me either with my "unsupported hardware."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm using the 7960 to experiment with *, and was wondering if there
>>> are
>>> alternative means to finding the firmware, or if the "out of the box"
>>> SCCP
>>> firmware (I have version P003AM30) will work with *.  I'm willing to
>>> pay
>> any
>>> "official resellers" a fair price for the F/W, but the attitude I
>>> received
>>> from Cisco and the one reseller I contacted have me thinking this is a
>> waste
>>> of time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm using Asterisk at Home and can seem to find any SCCP info, and don't
>>> want
>>> to delve too deeply into this experiment if the phone is not going to
>>> work
>>> reliably.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help or pointers in the right direction.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Pat
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