Hello, I am just building my first Asterisk server. Looking for a couple of good quality ip phones. I like the Cisco 7960, are they easy to configure to work with Asterisk? What are the alternatives, with a good speaker phone, and simple clean and stylish look like the Cisco? I appreciate your advice. Kind regards Michael Felder IT Medic Australia Pty. Ltd. P: 03 9557 2213 F: 03 9557 2214 M: 0419 568 217 E: Michael@ITMedic.com.au http://www.ITMedic.com.au Keeping your computer systems healthy.
Michael, The Cisco phones are excellent. However, configuring your first one will be a bit of a learning curve, but your second, third, etc. will be relatively easy. You may want to consider the 7940 as well, considering that it is cheaper, and that you most likely will not need 6 line appearances on the phone (Then again, you might....) Tom On Jul 14, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Michael Felder wrote:> Hello, > > I am just building my first Asterisk server. > > Looking for a couple of good quality ip phones. > I like the Cisco 7960, are they easy to configure to work with > Asterisk? > > What are the alternatives, with a good speaker phone, and simple clean > and stylish look like the Cisco? > > I appreciate your advice. > > Kind regards > > Michael Felder > IT Medic Australia Pty. Ltd. > P: 03 9557 2213 > F: 03 9557 2214 > M: 0419 568 217 > E: Michael@ITMedic.com.au > http://www.ITMedic.com.au > > Keeping your computer systems healthy. > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Hi Michael, i run several 7960 and 7940 on our network, and they run smooth and without any complications. you will have to upgrade them using the SIP firmware from Cisco (i use versions 7.4 and 7.5 at the moment), you can download them from Cisco's Homepage but you will need a CCO account with a contract for that (or grab then via the e*onkey network, search for "P0S3", 0 is "zero", not the letter "O"!!!). You should use SIP on the phone that supports many more features of Asterisk's SIP channel than any other implementation. all is well documented on the wiki on how to upgrade the phone but unfortunately you will have to spend some time in setting up your asterisk and the TFTP-configs for the phone to get it working properly. some links i used in the most early state of getting them to work: http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Setup%20SiP%20on%207940%20- %207960 http://www.it4u2.com/asterisk2.htm http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+phone+cisco+79xx once you upgraded your phone to SIP firmware, which is the most tricky part of the work, the configuration of Asterisk should be done in a few hours for a newbie to Asterisk. Hope this helps! Regards, Roland -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael Felder Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 3:00 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960 on Asterisk? Hello, I am just building my first Asterisk server. Looking for a couple of good quality ip phones. I like the Cisco 7960, are they easy to configure to work with Asterisk? What are the alternatives, with a good speaker phone, and simple clean and stylish look like the Cisco? I appreciate your advice. Kind regards Michael Felder IT Medic Australia Pty. Ltd. P: 03 9557 2213 F: 03 9557 2214 M: 0419 568 217 E: Michael@ITMedic.com.au http://www.ITMedic.com.au Keeping your computer systems healthy. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
much discusions in this forum about phone recommendation.... seems that favorites are cisco, polycom, sipura, snom, uniden and zultys (alphabetical order ;-) I like vendor independace and maximum interoberability, so polycom, cisco/sipura are not my favorites, also talking to zultys can't be direct, but via partner, there is left uniden and snom, my favorit is currently snom 360 :-) PJ Michael Felder wrote:> Hello, > > I am just building my first Asterisk server. > > Looking for a couple of good quality ip phones. > I like the Cisco 7960, are they easy to configure to work with Asterisk? > > What are the alternatives, with a good speaker phone, and simple clean > and stylish look like the Cisco? > > I appreciate your advice. > > Kind regards > > Michael Felder > IT Medic Australia Pty. Ltd. > P: 03 9557 2213 > F: 03 9557 2214 > M: 0419 568 217 > E: Michael@ITMedic.com.au > http://www.ITMedic.com.au > > Keeping your computer systems healthy. > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >