The Cisco 79xx phones weren't Sipura/Linksys ever. They were solid commercial phones. Those phones running skinny would work with the CCM (Cisco Call Manager) - and others.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > Amazing what a name means to people. In the case of Cisco, most of their > products came from acquisitions. The VoIP phones were originally from > Sipura, which Cisco bought and put under the Linksys brand. When they sold > Linksys to Belkin, they kept the Sipura phones and put the Cisco badge on > them. I have an old, old SPA504G sitting on my desk, it does say CISCO IP > PHONE though, so obviously it’s a serious phone. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipura_Technology > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Catalyst > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Cisco > > > > Cisco is named after San Francisco, the founders came from Stanford. So > maybe the customer needs to realize he wants “woke” phones. > > > > If he is just showing a preference for stuff from US companies instead of > all that cheap Chinese and Korean stuff, rest assured Grandstream is a US > company. But from the opposite coast, I believe their HQ is in Boston. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 1, 2025 3:20 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones > > > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *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. > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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