We have worked with some of you supplying Cisco IP phones to use with your Asterisk system. We have a good supply of new and used Cisco IP phones (CP-7905, CP-7940 and CP-7960) at this time. All of our equipment carries a 90-day warranty. If we can help you out with any of your phone, router or switch needs, please let me know. Thanks, Jon Putnam Global Technology Solutions main #763-488-1870 #222 fax #763-488-1875 jon.putnam@gtsinc.biz AIM: GTSJonP www.gtsinc.biz --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.559 / Virus Database: 351 - Release Date: 1/7/2004 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20040302/1eb95135/attachment.htm
I'm considering put this on the voip-info.org Wiki, but I thought I'd throw it out a few observations here first: * Cisco IP Phones are designed for enterprise deployments. They are designed to be provisioned by the hundred or thousand. They are not designed to be deployed for a single user or even a small office. Sure, they work great in either of these settings, but they require more knowledge and infrastructure than most small offices have. If you're a consultant or reseller, buying one or two and spending an afternoon figuring out how to provision them makes sense. Once you know how to provision one, provisioning a hundred is not difficult. If you're an end user or a small office, you're not going to need to provision a hundred, so the process for provisioning one is going to seem a bit overwhelming. Other VoIP equipment is clearly designed for at-home installation, with web-based interfaces, etc. I think people should be aware of this when comparing IP Phone options. cheers, glenn
Hi Glenn, What do you mean by "provisioning"? Thanks Mike On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:02:45 -0500, Glenn Powers <glenn@net127.com> wrote:>> provision a hundred, so the process for provisioning one is going to > seem a bit overwhelming. >
Mike Dent wrote:>Hi Glenn, >What do you mean by "provisioning"? > >loading the config files, with proxy servers, usernames, passwords, etc. cheers, glenn
So basically its just a silly word for configuring? Maybe its Cisco speak? maybe its just management mumbo-jumbo :) However I have some budget tone phones at home but I also have a Cisco 7960G on my home-office desk. It did not take me much longer to configure than the budget tones! In fact the menu config options are *very* simple in my opinion. Ok if you want to do any advanced stuff you may need to set up a tftp server but thats not difficult these days. MIke On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:25:06 -0500, Glenn Powers <glenn@net127.com> wrote:> Mike Dent wrote: > > >Hi Glenn, > >What do you mean by "provisioning"? > > > > > > loading the config files, with proxy servers, usernames, passwords, etc. > > cheers, > glenn > >
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Mike Dent wrote:> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:25:06 -0500, Glenn Powers <glenn@net127.com> wrote: > > Mike Dent wrote: > > > > >What do you mean by "provisioning"? > > > > loading the config files, with proxy servers, usernames, passwords, etc. > > > So basically its just a silly word for configuring? Maybe its Cisco > speak? maybe its just management mumbo-jumbo :)[mixed top and bootom posting sorted out] "Provisioning" is a common term in communications and refers to the act of setting something up. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisioning. Peter
Hi there does any of you use ip phones from cisco on asterisk and how is the quality of this configuration ? i have to make a price of an asterisk server with 100 ip phones but i need stable phones snom is nice but still i have trouble with echo on them and budgetone is cheap and feels cheap thanks Sander -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050920/89c57dff/attachment.htm
Hi Sander, Sander wrote:> Hi there does any of you use ip phones from cisco on asterisk and how is > the quality of this configuration ? i have to make a price of an > asterisk server with 100 ip phones but i need stable phones snom is nice > but still i have trouble with echo on them and budgetone is cheap and > feels cheapCisco phones work fine using SIP, good reports have also been seen with SCCP/Skinny, although my own experience on that is limited. We use SwissVoice a lot and others have reported great success with Polycom. Florian