asterisk users - Oct 2005 - Can Asterisk "proxy" a SIP phone to make it look like a Cisco skinny softphone?

Hi there

We have a Cisco VOIP environment here, with hard and softphones. I have
a softphone account/etc, but I'm a Linux user and (as far as I'm aware)
there is no Cisco softphone for Linux. However I can run Asterisk. So I
was wondering if there is a way to "convert" a SIP phone transaction
into a SKINNY transaction so that  the Cisco environment thinks it is a
Cisco Softphone? I know you can put a trunk in between Asterisk and
Cisco Callmanager - but there's no way I'd get the OK for that at this
early stage ;-)

Thanks!

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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Why don't you connect to Cisco via Chan_sccp and use a soft or  
hardphone to connect to asterisk. Like this:

Cisco<-----(chan_sccp)----->asterisk<-----(SIP)----->Your phone

Just a thought.

Tom

On Oct 16, 2005, at 6:44 PM, Jason Haar wrote:
> Hi there
>
> We have a Cisco VOIP environment here, with hard and softphones. I  
> have
> a softphone account/etc, but I'm a Linux user and (as far as I'm  
> aware)
> there is no Cisco softphone for Linux. However I can run Asterisk.  
> So I
> was wondering if there is a way to "convert" a SIP phone
transaction
> into a SKINNY transaction so that  the Cisco environment thinks it  
> is a
> Cisco Softphone? I know you can put a trunk in between Asterisk and
> Cisco Callmanager - but there's no way I'd get the OK for that at
this
> early stage ;-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
> Cheers
>
> Jason Haar
> Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
> Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
> PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
>
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