[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960 SIP Firmware

[John Breeden]

I'm ex cisco (left in '96). Cisco did change their corp policy recently 
in that they no longer will sell firmware directly to end users. I think 
as far as the phones go, that's a mistake on cisco's part. Perhaps we'll 
see cisco move some of these phones over to the linksys side someday. 
Any cisco product/marketing managers out there?

You also need to realize cisco is primarily a software company. It's 
family jewels is IOS. That's why they license for each device.

It would be nice to locate a cisco dealer who would be willing to sell 
service contracts/TAC logins for single units - so far I too have been 
able to find one. If found it would be great to add it to the wiki

I just flashed a 7960G from voipsupply. It came with skinny. The SIP 
path I took was: 3.0, 4.2, 4.4, 5.3, 6.0, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3.

Don't know if ALL these flashes are really nessessary, but I had 'um so 
I did 'um.

Word of caution: the 7.x firmware sent to me by voipsuppy was incomplete 
as to the 7.x releases. They left out the .loads files. Without those 
files you'll end up with the dreaded "application load failure".

BTW: The service from voipsupply was great otherwise.

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John Breeden
Hawaii

Ed Greenberg wrote:

> 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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