Shawn, That's a complete load of manure. I have an office full of 7960's, they work great with asterisk with the SIP images loaded. I'm about to pick up a lot of 7912's (simple one line phones, same as the 7905 but it has a built in switch). These phones have also been confirmed to work with Asterisk.
I would recommend not going directly to cisco, and just find a reseller who can offer you the phones preloaded with SIP images, or the phones + the smartnet contracts so you can get the images and firmware from cisco yourself! I've tried a *lot* of phones with Asterisk, and thus far, the Cisco's are by far the best I've used. Brian D'Arcy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn Parker Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco 79xx series IP phones I got a call from our Cisco rep today saying that they couldn't sell just phones to anyone because if "my ethernet isn't to exact spec..." then they won't work at all. I've read over the Wiki documentation and it seems that the 79xx series phones work with Asterisk. They told me that without a Cisco phone system in place or a Cisco router or switch, then the ethernet wouldn't work with the phones. Is this true, or is it someone just trying to sell me a Cisco system? I don't see how my use of a Planet or Netgear switch would alter the spec of my ethernet to cause a IP phone to fail. Seems far fetched to me. I've never had any other problems mixing Cisco equipment with other product lines. Does anyone have any knowledge or experience to give me dealing with Cisco 7902G and 7905G IP phones and getting them to work on a lan with Asterisk when *not* using other Cisco hardware? Cheers, Shawn _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
