RE: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco phones

[William J Mandra]

Well, After a lot of searching (and a few calls to Cisco) here is what I came up with. When you buy a Cisco IP phone used in order to legally use it you must first re-license the firmware through an authorized Cisco Provider. Once you re-license the phone you can then get the service contract for $8/year which entitles you to download the firmware updates. So even if the phone came with SCCP firmware after re-licensing and purchasing a service contract you can obtain the SIP firmware via download. But of course, there's a catch, most Cisco Providers will not sell a Service Contract for used equipment. The re-license fee is around $115.00, so depending on how much you bought your used phone for it actually turns out to be cheaper to buy the phones new. You cannot get a Service Contract for a used phone until you re-license the software. When you go onto Cisco's website to locate a provider near you make sure you choose "Advanced Search" and select "IP Telephony Revised Specialization" from the drop down box, otherwise you will most likely get a list of providers / resellers who are no longer in business. Only the providers with the IP Telephony Revised Specialization are authorized to re-license firmware and sell Service Contracts for Cisco IP phones. In my case, I paid $185 + shipping for the phone, $115 for the re-license & $8 for the Service Contract (a local provider was able to help me out), total = $323. Instead I could have just purchased one brand new from the Cisco provider for $350.00 + the service contract and been done with it.     Good luck,     Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Paul Tyreman Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 ONYX 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco phones All I can find on that Cisco website is this:   http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/cpn/cpn_match_result.pl?CurPosition=0&Direction=&ResultType=EC&search_id=156576&tab_name=findsp&country_id=GB   I can't see the likes of BT, O2, Vodaphone etc wanting to deal with me !         -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hermann Wecke Posted At: 23 April 2004 17:23 Posted To: Asterisk-Users Conversation: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco phones Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco phones   On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Paul Tyreman wrote:   > I have three questions to ask about this: > 1)   How do I know if my phone qualifies for a service contrct ?   When you (try to) buy your service contract, you will need to give the model and serial number of the item you are trying to include into your contract. If the item qualifies, then you are "approved". I had some problems adding mine. For some reason the contract was made under the previous owner name. This was promptly solved, BTW!   > 2)   Where do I buy a service contract from ?   Any Cisco partner around the world: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/cpn/cpn_pub_bassrch.pl (find a Service Provider)   > 3)  How will Cisco know that I have downloaded a image that I don't > have a licence for ?   Every time you want to download an image, they will present you a copyright notice and an agreement to be accepted. If you choose to download that image, it is registered into their database and match against your service contract. If you have a service contract for a 7960 SCCP and is downloading an image for a 12416 router you *MAY* get charged for that... *MAY* does not mean that you *will*. But don't complain if you receive an invoice or a credit card charge billing for that download. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users