Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-01 Thread Adam Moffett
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 re

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-01 Thread Ken Hohhof
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

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-01 Thread Nate Burke
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 wis

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-01 Thread Bill Prince
Back in the day, they used to say "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM." The later corollary was "Nobody gets fired for buying Cisco." bp On 4/1/2025 1:43 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Amazing what a name means to people.  In the case of Cisco, most of their products came from acquisitions.  The VoIP

[AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-01 Thread Nate Burke
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 thinki

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-01 Thread Daniel White
I don’t comment much here anymore because I’m not necessarily up to date on the latest/greatest for fiber and fixed wireless stuffs - but I do know a thing or two about VoIP ;-) Oh, I love to hate Cisco. But hey,… a topic I know a ton about (my home lab has probably 100 different VoIP devices

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-01 Thread Daniel White
Every service provider VoIP phone I’ve run into has been an OEM of something else and is usually easily flashed to the standard firmware. I’ve seen Grandstream, Yealink, HTEK, and Fanvil. I’ve seen Polycom models but not Poly models as well. atheral-logo Daniel White Co-Founder phone: +1

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-01 Thread Daniel White
Others like IPiFony? They used some code someone wrote to emulate SKINNY on Asterisk. I don’t remember the details. Try putting a Cisco 79xx phone into SIP mode. If you don’t brick it, and have the patience to let it do its thing, it only supports half of the features. When Atheral first s

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-01 Thread Bill Prince
I remember that show. Went great with a PB&J sandwich. bp On 4/1/2025 2:06 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Anybody else old enough to have watched The Cisco Kid on TV when they were growing up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cisco_Kid_(TV_series) *From:*AF *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince *Sent:* Tu

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-01 Thread Carl Peterson
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=02a19ff6f2f64912&q=cisco+stickers Grandstream phones are the best. GDMS rocks. Put a sticker on it. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com