Hi Guys, I have client with a Cisco 2690 call manager solution that wants to upgrade but cannot stomach the costs of continuing with Cisco The installation will go up to 100 users The client currently has about 40 Cisco phones and would like to continue with these phones with the odd Polycom I'm looking at plugging in an Asterisk box and using the existing Cisco box as a PSTN gateway only Has anyone on the list done this? Any pitfalls or tips you would like to share? Thanks Femi
Hi Femi We have about 50 Cisco 7960s on one site off Asterisk 1.4.18 Its all SIP and it doesn't stress a P3 system much at all. I am not sure what phones you are using - the 7960s are not hard to configure, a bit of process to convert from the Cisco Skinny to SIP (using SIP v8.6) but everything seems to work well. The 7961s or 7971s use an XML config which is probably Everything loads off the TFTP server. We are using the Linksys POE Switches SFE2000P which seem okay but don't always like to be fully loaded Things I would work on are automating or simplifying the provisioning (doesn't change that much once its done), firmware upgrades, and getting to know the config files well. Cheers Duncan -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Femi Sent: Friday, 25 April 2008 21:34 To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [asterisk-users] Cisco to Asterisk migration Hi Guys, I have client with a Cisco 2690 call manager solution that wants to upgrade but cannot stomach the costs of continuing with Cisco The installation will go up to 100 users The client currently has about 40 Cisco phones and would like to continue with these phones with the odd Polycom I'm looking at plugging in an Asterisk box and using the existing Cisco box as a PSTN gateway only Has anyone on the list done this? Any pitfalls or tips you would like to share? Thanks Femi _______________________________________________ -- 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
Basic process: 1) Build the A*k server so that it has tftp installed (or another box that does) 2) Build up the SIPdefault.conf and get the firmware files in place (see Cisco docs on this, plus theres loads on the wikis). 3) Test with a single phone, change its tftp server to the asterisk. Check that : a) The firmware switches to SIP b) the phone registers to A*k and all is well. Calls can be made etc... 4) Once your happy with the A*k config and I mean ***really*** happy, then add in all the configs for the other phones (I used scripts to build mine). 5) Try a few more phones manually. But eventually just update DHCP so that the tftp server option points to the A*k server. A. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Femi Sent: 25 April 2008 10:34 To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [asterisk-users] Cisco to Asterisk migration Hi Guys, I have client with a Cisco 2690 call manager solution that wants to upgrade but cannot stomach the costs of continuing with Cisco The installation will go up to 100 users The client currently has about 40 Cisco phones and would like to continue with these phones with the odd Polycom I'm looking at plugging in an Asterisk box and using the existing Cisco box as a PSTN gateway only Has anyone on the list done this? Any pitfalls or tips you would like to share? Thanks Femi _______________________________________________ -- 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