RE: [Asterisk-Users] OT: SIP vs. Skinny protocol
Skinny phone functionality is 'richer' than SIP phone functionality. First off, on a skinny phone, in hands free mode, you can start dialling and the phone will automatically go off hook. Sip requires you to manually hit the speaker button, hit new call, or pickup the phone before dialling. (One extra confusing key stroke I have a hard time getting over). I don't think SIP will work with the expansion modules on a 7960. Those are a few things I've found. On Asterisk there is a chan_skinny and a chan_sccp available for skinny based phones. Perhaps as more Cisco phones get used with *, more features will get implemented so they respond in a fashion very similar to a Callmanager installation. Maybe Cisco is already doing that in their labs? That would be cool. Ray Burkholder [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oneunified.net 704 576 5101 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Pauly Sent: December 23, 2003 12:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] OT: SIP vs. Skinny protocol I assume there are several people on this list that have Cisco Call Manager implementations under their belt We are beginning a call manager implementation and the first question I asked Cisco was, should we use SIP or Skinny. Cisco is pushing me towards Skinny, saying that I will lose some functionality with SIP. They also say that most of their customers implement skinny. I see two obvious benefits to using SIP: 1. I can get cheaper phones that run SIP, altough Cisco just came out with a 7902G for $130 US. 2. It's an open protocol and is more likely to survive long-term. What functionality do I lose by going with Skinny? Will Cisco eventually go with SIP only and I'll have to convert anyway? Any other pluses or minuses? ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Scanned for viruses and dangerous content at http://www.oneunified.net and is believed to be clean. -- Scanned for viruses and dangerous content at http://www.oneunified.net and is believed to be clean. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] OT: SIP vs. Skinny protocol
At 11:10 AM 12/24/2003, you wrote: Skinny phone functionality is 'richer' than SIP phone functionality. First off, on a skinny phone, in hands free mode, you can start dialling and the phone will automatically go off hook. Sip requires you to manually hit the speaker button, hit new call, or pickup the phone before dialling. (One extra confusing key stroke I have a hard time getting over). Um, that's a feature of the phone, not of the SIP protocol. My SNOM 200 lets me dial before picking up the handset no problem. --Ernest ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: SIP vs. Skinny protocol
Skinny phone functionality is 'richer' than SIP phone functionality. First off, on a skinny phone, in hands free mode, you can start dialling and the phone will automatically go off hook. Sip requires you to manually hit the speaker button, hit new call, or pickup the phone before dialling. (One extra confusing key stroke I have a hard time getting over). This is not a sip issue, it's a phone funcionality... ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: SIP vs. Skinny protocol
Ray Burkholder wrote: Skinny phone functionality is 'richer' than SIP phone functionality. First Skinny *functionality* seems to be 'richer', but it's implementation in * is woefully under-functional. Regardless of individual phone feature sets, SIP is far better implemented in * than skinny. Most features of the 7910s I have don't even have supporting code written. -- -- = lion is Lion J Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = 612-605-3613 x3001 FWD 94117 = ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] OT: SIP vs. Skinny protocol
I assume there are several people on this list that have Cisco Call Manager implementations under their belt We are beginning a call manager implementation and the first question I asked Cisco was, should we use SIP or Skinny. Cisco is pushing me towards Skinny, saying that I will lose some functionality with SIP. They also say that most of their customers implement skinny. I see two obvious benefits to using SIP: 1. I can get cheaper phones that run SIP, altough Cisco just came out with a 7902G for $130 US. 2. It's an open protocol and is more likely to survive long-term. What functionality do I lose by going with Skinny? Will Cisco eventually go with SIP only and I'll have to convert anyway? Any other pluses or minuses? ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
