On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 08:46 -0500, David Gibbons wrote: > I use two ‘lines’ though ‘Line appearances’ would be a better term, > though still confusing in my book.
> One line for incoming, one line that auto-answers for paging. > Cisco really has so many line appearances on their phones to enable > BLF using SIP over TCP. Cisco 7960 does not do BLF (at least not on the SIP firmware) but the 7961 might. It's a shame they haven't added such features, but there we go.) If you enable two line keys with the same user/pass then the phone will automatically put a second call/call waiting onto the second line key (assuming you have call waiting enabled.) But personally I preferred the way it presented the second call before, on a single line, and found the way it displays it with two lines a bit confusing. (I can't remember exactly why now, something like it would flash the second line icon but not show you the call information until that key was pressed, or you scrolled to it.) I could see users not getting on with this, so I didn't configure it like that. The rest can be used for speed dials, but these were of limited use to me since for some reason, although the line keys can be provisioned remotely over TFTP, the speed dials cannot. It's okay for personal use though. Personally moved off my 7960 in favour of the SNOM 370 as this supports far more features than the Cisco SIP image, which is only really a piece of migration fluff to enable Cisco to migrate customers away from competitors SIP systems onto Call Manager with the dual-boot/application loader. The SNOM perhaps doesn't look as fancy as the Cisco handset, but it wins hands-down on SIP features. (the remote provisioning system was a little complicated to set up, but once set up it's okay.) It's a shame since the Cisco is a very capable (and expensive) handset, just let down by no development in the software other than small bug fixes for many years. _______________________________________________ -- 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