[asterisk-users] Cisco 7940G licensing with asterisk

[Cory Andrews]

You need to purchase a Smartnet license for your phone, and have it registered by a Cisco authorized reseller.  

The Smartnet registration will run you $10-$20 per phone, depending upon the reseller.  The registration process typically takes around 24-48 hours to process.

Once registered, you will receive an email from Cisco with instruction on obtaining a Cisco TAC login.  Once you have your login, you will be able to access and download the SIP firmware.

If you look around on Google or on the Cisco website, there is a lot of documentation out there that describes the process for migrating the firmware.

I agree, it is a lot of work.  I do not see Cisco shipping phones with SIP firmware on them anytime soon, as obviously their vested interest is in their CCM and CCME platforms, and their native Skinny protocol.

They are being dragged reluctantly into SIP and platforms such as Asterisk present a threat....they are not going to tailor their tools and channel practices toward folks using a non Cisco platform.

Cory J Andrews




-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of yonoko molomo
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:37 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco 7940G licensing with asterisk

Hi,
i bought this device and the cost of the 7040G itself was similar to
the license. if im not wrong, the telephone cost around 80€. the sip
license was around 80€ as well

however, i am quite annoyed because the phone did not come with sip,
but callmanager so i cant use it as i planned.
i have read somewhere that I need to change the firmware, but i
require a cisco account to download the firmware (but nobody provided
me this account). we paid for the SIP license, but we did not get a
SIP-capable device, and we do not have the way to download the
firmware (yet).

Regarding the power adapter, I had to buy them sepparately. since i do
not have POE devices i cant answer your last question.



2007/9/27, Erick Perez <eaperezh at gmail.com>:
> Hi there,
> In Cisco web site
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/phones/ps379/products_data_sheet09186a008008884a.html
> It says that regardless of the technology used you have to buy a licencse.
> Does the license apply to use the phone with asterisk, or, can i just
> buy the phone?
>
> Also, the phone does not requiere to use an AC adapter if used with
> PoE injectors/switches.
> Can non-Cisco PoE injectors/switches be used with this phone?
>
> Thanks,
>
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