John Todd wrote.... > Cisco has an 802.11 phone called the 7920, which is apparently > shipping now. It is very expensive (>$550 USD) and only runs SCCP at > the moment, which is Cisco's proprietary VoIP protocol. However, if > it falls in line with some of Cisco's other high-end VoIP equipment, > that means it should have a trailing-edge SIP image running by > December. Despite Cisco's frequent stupidity when it comes to > marketing decisions, they make some pretty nice gear and so I'm > holding out for the 7920. > > JT I have two on my desk. And very nice they are too. Found the hidden menus, from whence you can crank the power from standard 20mW to 100mW, for those "just gotta talk moments..." Battery lasts about 1 hour talk time, 8 hours standby... (but that was on the 20mW setting)... We are trying them out around Wellington, on the citywide Wifi network. They work very very well. Interesting menu options implying mechanisms to take the 11 channels of WiFI, and dedicate 1-3 for voice, and turn the rest over to data. There were some rumours that they only work on Cisco Aironet base stations.... They work fine on DLink, Kamaguza, and Uncle Tom Cobblies base stations... SCCP only, and don't hold your breath.... -- \_ Roger De Salis rdesalis at fx dot net dot nz </' FX Networks +64 21 481 452 /) Wellington, New Zealand roger at desalis dot gen dot nz (/ ` Bentley win Le Mans! - What next, English win cricket in Aus?
--On Monday, August 18, 2003 10:31 pm +1200 Roger De Salis <roger@desalis.gen.nz> wrote:> > Interesting menu options implying mechanisms to take the 11 > channels of WiFI, and dedicate 1-3 for voice, and turn the > rest over to data. There were some rumours that they only > work on Cisco Aironet base stations.... They work fine on > DLink, Kamaguza, and Uncle Tom Cobblies base stations... >I suppose you need the Cisco Aironet for QoS support on the WLAN. Performance may not be good on a highly loaded base station - do you have any test results? The other problem with the 7920 is that you currently need CallManager to host it. It would be bad news if Cisco implemented SIP but kept the requirement for CallManager to host the phone. Iain
>John Todd wrote.... > >> Cisco has an 802.11 phone called the 7920, which is apparently >> shipping now. It is very expensive (>$550 USD) and only runs SCCP at >> the moment, which is Cisco's proprietary VoIP protocol. However, if >> it falls in line with some of Cisco's other high-end VoIP equipment, >> that means it should have a trailing-edge SIP image running by >> December. Despite Cisco's frequent stupidity when it comes to >> marketing decisions, they make some pretty nice gear and so I'm >> holding out for the 7920. >> >> JT > >I have two on my desk. And very nice they are too. Found the hidden >menus, from whence you can crank the power from standard 20mW >to 100mW, for those "just gotta talk moments..."Please, do tell!>Battery lasts about 1 hour talk time, 8 hours standby... >(but that was on the 20mW setting)... > >We are trying them out around Wellington, on the citywide >Wifi network. They work very very well. > >Interesting menu options implying mechanisms to take the 11 >channels of WiFI, and dedicate 1-3 for voice, and turn the >rest over to data. There were some rumours that they only >work on Cisco Aironet base stations.... They work fine on >DLink, Kamaguza, and Uncle Tom Cobblies base stations... > >SCCP only, and don't hold your breath....http://sourceforge.net/projects/sccp/ SCCP for Asterisk as above. I haven't been able to make it work, but that's because SCCP configuration menus suck, and I don't have any time to waste on it right now. JT>-- > \_ Roger De Salis rdesalis at fx dot net dot nz > </' FX Networks +64 21 481 452 > /) Wellington, New Zealand roger at desalis dot gen dot nz >(/ >` Bentley win Le Mans! - What next, English win cricket in Aus? >