I love the GDMS Provisioning. With the SPA5xx phones, the way I used to
do it was have the DHCP server provide the TFTP Address, if you don't
control the DHCP Server, is there another way to provision them other
than manually configuring them?
On 4/1/2025 3:20 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
I wish I could answer this. I deployed quite a few of the SPA5xx
phones. Those are straightforward enough, so if there's one with
Bluetooth and you find one new enough to have a Cisco badge maybe you
can appease that person.
I did have one proper Cisco that we played with, and at the time I
recall it being rather more difficult than everything else. We wanted
the option just in case we had someone like you have who insists on
Cisco, but over the years I did VoIP, exactly zero customers ever
wanted a proper Cisco after seeing what it cost.
-Adam
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*From:* AF on behalf of Nate Burke
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 1, 2025 1:41 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
*Subject:* [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones
We've been using grandstream phones for quite a while, cheap and easy to
provision. One of my new business customers is making a stink because
'he's never heard of Grandstream, these phones just don't work with my
bluetooth headset, I NEED a Cisco phone because that's a real phone'
I'm thinking that it's mainly about ego, that his friends probably have
Cisco phones on their desks, and he doesn't, so he's making up issues.
I haven't used Cisco phones in many years, Linksys SPA504G's were my
last dabble into non-grandstream phones.
It looks like a Cisco phone with Bluetooth (A requirement) is about $550
for an 8851. How do you provision those? Is there any sort of cloud
provisioning? Still done with TFTP? Put some sort of call manager on
site? I really like that I can provision the Grandstream phones while
they are behind the customers firewall without having to do any port
forwarding etc. Cisco always used to like Licensing, is that still the
case to use them with normal SIP, or are they all SIP now.
Just wondering if it's worth trying to investigate Cisco phones for this
one customer, or if Cisco phones really want a Cisco Callmanager on the
backend.
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