asterisk users - Oct 2003 - Cisco hard IP phones and Skinny vs. SIP

I have Asterisk up and running and it is working great with my SIP phones.

However, I have some "Skinny"-protocol Cisco 7960s.  Does Asterisk
support
the Skinny protocol?  I've seen some references to Skinny in the software.
If so, should I stick with Skinny with the 7960 or convert to SIP?  If
anyone has some Skinny confs they would send me I'd be much obliged.

If I should convert to SIP... how?  I've seen the Cisco directions but they
involve downloading software from Cisco that I can't download because I
don't have a maintenance contract. Is there a way around this, or am I
better off sticking with Skinny?

Thanks!
Joe

Hi,

At 17:14 14-10-2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I have Asterisk up and running and it is working great with my SIP phones.
>
>However, I have some "Skinny"-protocol Cisco 7960s.  Does Asterisk
support
>the Skinny protocol?  I've seen some references to Skinny in the
software.
>If so, should I stick with Skinny with the 7960 or convert to SIP?  If
>anyone has some Skinny confs they would send me I'd be much obliged.
>
>If I should convert to SIP... how?  I've seen the Cisco directions but
they
>involve downloading software from Cisco that I can't download because I
>don't have a maintenance contract. Is there a way around this, or am I
>better off sticking with Skinny?
Skinny is still a little less mature then SIP, so if you want a production 
solution, go with SIP for now. If you have some time to help develop/debug, 
stick with Skinny :-)

You can probably find SIP loads for the phone around somewhere, although I 
don't have them (don't have any 7960's, though I'd love to :-).

The skinny.conf samples should tell you enough to get going. It will work 
for simply making and receiving calls. Advanced features such as 
transferring etc. may be more difficult.



Met vriendelijke groet,
Florian Overkamp
ObSimRef BV (http://www.obsimref.com/)