Junction Networks Lab: Cisco 7960 Phones

Although Cisco makes a nice line of phones, we don't recommend them for our customers because Cisco does not plan to continue to support SIP on them. They will continue developing SIP support on their Linksys branded phones, which we've tested out and really like.

However, as a courtesy for customers who already have Cisco phones, we published a Knowledge Base article on how to get them set up and configured for our OnSIP Hosted PBX, which you can find here.

Note: We were wrong. Cisco will continue to develop SIP for their Cisco line of phones. However, the Linksys phones are easier to configure and manage, so we still recommend avoiding the Cisco line if you have not already purchased your phones.

I don't think this is true

Posted by: cullenfluffyjennings
Thu, 10/02/2008 - 1:17pm

Hi,

My name is Cullen Jennings, I'm a distinguished engineer at Cisco and report to the CTO of the Voice Technology Group. I am certainly not aware of any decisions that Cisco made to stop developing SIP on our 79xx series IP phones.

Cullen

Re: I don't think this is true

Posted by: charlotte
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 10:03am

Hi Cullen -

Thanks for the correction! We're updating our documentation to reflect it.

Charlotte, Systems Engineer, Junction Networks