[Asterisk-Users] 7970 SIP Firmware; SIP 8.2 for 7940/7960

[asterisk at anime.net]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Aaron Daniel wrote:
> The SIP version firmware for the 7970 SUCKS as far as I can tell (what we 
> tried anyway... ended up setting it up using sccp on asterisk, although I 
> wasn't too happy about it).  As for the 7940 and 7960, it causes more 
> problems than it fixes, since it's more CCM centric than previous versions of 
> the SIP firmware.  The main thing is calls from other proxies show up with 
> the server address, and on more than one occasion, audio just didn't work 
> when the call wasn't coming from the same server as the phone.

The showstopper for us is the SIP image doesn't support BLF. Not 
supporting basic functionality like this is incomprehensible for a company 
with enormous resources like cisco.

It's sorta like cisco wants to punish customers for daring to use SIP 
instead of SCCP.

-Dan