On Friday 10 April 2009 03:33:36 Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Shocky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to make and receive calls through a Cisco Call Manager server that > > I have no control over. I have to use a Cisco soft phone (Cisco IP > > Communicator), which only runs on Windows. But I'm on Linux. CCM is > > apparently capable of supporting SIP and H.323 interfaces, but they won't > > provide this option for me. Right now I'm using a VMWare XP guest to run > > the soft phone, but this is painful (especially with some VPN > > complications thrown in). > > > > I've read that Asterisk supports SCCP, at least somewhat. I'm wondering > > if I could set up Asterisk on my desktop machine to route calls between a > > SIP client such as Kphone or Ekiga and the CCM server. Would this be > > possible? > > > > I heard that one of the problems in interfacing with CCM over SCCP is the > > use of proprietary codecs. Would this be a problem in my case? > > I've never looked at SCCP, but if it does work then you could use the > console phone built into asterisk rather than IP plumb it into a > soft-phone... So asterisk is essentially acting as an SCCP soft-phone > itself. No GUI though, but if you're happy typing commands... :) > > Gordon
That's somewhat encouraging. I'm sure I could get by without a GUI. I guess I need to look in more detail at the state of the SCCP support. Thanks, Shocky -- These are my opinions. Get your own. _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
