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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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