asterisk users - Oct 2005 - SCCP support is making good progress

Hi folks,

whoever owns a Cisco phone and is unhappy about slow firmware, 
incomplete XML support etc... should really have a look at Sergio 
Chersovani's rewrite of chan-sccp!
It is in fact far away from any sccp-channel drivers we used to know 
just half a year ago. Sergio did a complete rewrite and meanwhile it's 
not only running stable with asterisk stable and CVS - it's also very 
feature reach and supports almost any feature, the real Callmanager has 
and a few more. But the greatest advantage is - one can use the native 
Skinny firmware for the Cisco phones. And almost any Cisco phone is 
supported.

Phone support:
Fully / almost fully: 7970, 7960, 7940, 7914, 7920, 7910, 7905, 7902,
                       IP Communicator (new softphone)
Basic / untested:     7936, 7935

Some features:
Monitored speeddials (busy lamp field) on 7970, 7960, 7940, 7914, IPC
Call forwarding
Call waiting
Do not disturb
Park / Pickup
Autoanswer (1-way or 2-way) per dial parameter
Ringer control per variable
Highly configurable

Links:
Official homepage:   http://chan-sccp.berlios.de/
Unofficial homepage: http://chan-sccp.org/
Mailinglist:  http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/chan-sccp-users
Webforum:            http://forum.chan-sccp.org/

Regards,
Stefan

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> whoever owns a Cisco phone and is unhappy about slow 
> firmware, incomplete XML support etc... should really have a 
> look at Sergio Chersovani's rewrite of chan-sccp!
Is there a good resource out there for people who don't have a lot of
experience with Cisco phones? I picked up a 7960 earlier this week to give
potential clients an example of what they get when they spend a *lot* of
money on IP phones, but I must confess I'm having a nightmare of a time
trying to configure it.

The main problem seem to be that I have nothing but a phone and a brief
licence agreement/regulatory approval sheet, and nothing else. I've trawled
through the numerous pages about these phones both on Cisco's website and on
voip-info, but I'm still not really sure what files I need to have on the
TFTP server to get the phone going in the first place, or find some
up-to-date examples to work from. Even after that I'm not sure I'll be
able
to upgrade the firmware without a Cisco service agreement (from what I've
read), which is ridiculous for a phone that's twice as expensive as many
other enterprise IP phones.

Any suggested reading others on the list have found helpful in this
scenario?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Chris
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Stefan Gofferje wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> whoever owns a Cisco phone and is unhappy about slow firmware, 
> incomplete XML support etc... should really have a look at Sergio 
> Chersovani's rewrite of chan-sccp!
>
Ok - I'll give it a go :) - Just one problem... My phones have been 
converted to SIP - and I dont have skinny to put back! Can you even swap 
these things back again?!

Wayne.

Anyone out there with experience connecting this? The Siemens HiPath 
3550 comes with 2 BRI (S0) ports built-in and is configured as a BRI 
trunk interface card.

Thanks in advance.

Stephen