all my 7960's work great. loading the new sip image was no problem , took about 5 min. I even got them from ebay =>
Jason On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:52:32 -0800, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:07:33PM -0500, Bob Willock spake thusly: > > I just bought a couple of these Cisco 7970G phones and it seems that they > > require a SIP image binary file to load when the phone boots and this file > > Cisco phones are hugely overrated. I have deployed a number of them and I > have decided to switch to Polycom. Flashing them is a PITA. Especially if > you get old ones. The phones always come with SCCP. Then you have to pay a > bunch of money (on top of the already expensive phones) to get a SIP > license. Managing hundreds of SIP*.cnf files is a huge pain too, I have > put them into a database and generate them as needed. > > Hell, the power supplies for these things alone cost $35! Oh, and make > SURE you get a real Cisco power supply when you buy your phone. I found > out the hard way. I had been getting the power cubes for $10. They were > listed as the same part number as the Cisco power cube. Then I saw real > Cisco power supplies and noticed they looked different and found the price > to be $35. Now I know why several of my phones do not work properly! I > swapped in Cisco power supplies and they work better. Not Cisco's fault > but another thing to look out for. > > Then you find that your phone has an older version of SCCP which won't > retrieve the new SIP images with long filenames. So you upgrade to the > most recent short filename SIP image and find that it won't take a > standard SIPDefault.conf file because it is too big so you provide a very > minimal SIPDefault.conf and finally upgrade to the latest SIP firmware. > Now you can configure and use the phone. My first few 7960's were used. DO > NOT buy used 7960's! They usually aren't that much cheaper (none of the > ones I found anyway) > > Cisco doesn't support Asterisk, open source, or open standards. Don't use > Cisco phones! > > -- > Tracy Reed http://copilotcom.com > This message is cryptographically signed for your protection. > Info: http://copilotconsulting.com/sig > > > _______________________________________________ > 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