Cisco 7940/7960
Submitted by jeffworden on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 5:25pm.
I have several of them
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 6:01am
I have several of them working just fine. Just so you know they are not supported by fonality and you will lose features like Intercom and Paging on these phones. Cisco does not have a very good SIP firmware, they put a lot more effort into their SCCP or Skinny firmware.
That's fine... we are only a
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 7:29am
That's a great idea!
I see
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 8:09am
7960 or 7940
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 8:21am
Any 7960 or 7940s will work great. I have over 1500 of them in the field. I prefer the 7960 becase of the 6 softkeys. You can set the softkeys as extentions or speed dials. Most of the time I set 1 key as an auto answer extention "intercom extention", 1 as an "intercom" speed dial to the "ring group" you will setup, and the other 4 keys as extentions. Hope this helps. Let me know.
The other nice thing about
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 9:24am
The other nice thing about the 7940/60 is they use the older pre standard power. You can pick up a real Cisco switch used with PoE for under 200 on eBay. This will give you auto QoS and VLAN assignment (if you are using both ports on the phone).
Here is one I found on eBay with a quick serach
You also don't need to buy the power injectors with the phones if you go this route, another savings.
Scott
I'm using Pro... I don't
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 10:39am
I'm using Pro... I don't really care about the full feature set... I just want people to be able receive calls and dial out and check their voicemail... I use ACD on the CCE edition, but that also shouldn't matter... so i'm not sure what "features" i'd be missing by not using the Polycoms... I have a IP550 now and I don't use anything other than, dial, receive, transfer, hold, call logs and the voicemail button...
Does anyone know if the 7941 will work?
You can get them to work,
Thu, 05/08/2008 - 3:00pm
You can get them to work, although the Cisco Phones are much more difficult to setup then say an Aastra phone. Fonality support is not going to help you configure these phones as they are not on the Certified list.
If you have never worked with Cisco phones and you do not know much about linux, you will most likely have a very difficult time with these phones. We are a Cisco Reseller moving to Fonality for IP Tel and I do not like the Cisco Phones on Trixbox. The SIP feature set is horrible on Cisco phones. Dont get me wrong, the phones are awsome phones when you can use the Skinny protocol.
But with all the other issues you have had, you will probably come to hate the cisco phone and the lack of support of the phone with the Trixbox system. I would highly recommend you stick to the certified phones that fonality has listed.
I completely agree with
Thu, 05/08/2008 - 3:19pm
I completely agree with Derek, they are extremely nice phones. Personally they build quality, sound quality look and feel it is the nicest phone out there and I have tried Aastra, SNOM and Polycom.
That being said the SIP feature set is crippled from Cisco and provisioning is nothing short of a science fair project.
For feature set the Aastra's win hands down. The Polycom's are a close second to the Cisco's in speakerphone quality and they have a very nice look and feel to them. The SNOM's have very good SIP software but the quality is terrible, they are very light (you can pull them across the desk from the handset cord) and we have had troubles with buttons, hook switches and intermittent displays.
Hope this helps.
Scott
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2008-03-11