[cisco-voip] Phone Loads for CME 3.3

[Lawrence E. Bakst]

Q:

1. What's the right set of phone loads for CME 3.3 for someone who 
has 7920's, 7960's and 7970's?

Background:
First I got the 7960 phones and used the load that came with CME 3.3.

7960: 5.0(6.0) "P00305000600"

Then I got a 7920. I am running what I believe is latest load until recently:
7920: 4.0(01.09) "cmterm_7920.4.0-01-09"

Then I got some 7970's. Nice phone. Look for loads but the oldest one 
I can find that has a .zip file (no .exe stuff for us CME folks) 
where I can extract the files is:
7970: TERM70.6-0-3SR1S "TERM70.6-0-3SR1S"

Boy you gotta love these Cisco phone load version and file name 
conventions, eh?

"show ephone registered" shows:
7960's running SCCP ver 4
7920's running SCCP ver 2
7970's running SCCP ver 5

It all seems to work at a certain level, but I've got issues. I've 
been warned that I should got back to 3.2, but for now I am staying 
with 3.3.

More Q:

2a. Should I upgrade the 7920 to the new 2.0 "cmterm_7920.4.0-02-00" firmware?
2b. Is the new 7920 2.0 firmware known to work with CME 3.3?
2c. What SCCP version does the 7920 2.0 firmware implement?

3. Should I move the 7960 phones up to a newer firmware version and 
get everything running the same version of SCCP?

4. Is it important to have all the phones running the same version of 
SCCP? Given that the 7920 was a ver 2 until recently, I would guess 
no, but I really have no idea.

5. What phone loads are at least known to work with CME 3.3?

6. What is Cisco's plan for supporting CME phone loads? 7970 firmware 
isn't included with CME 3.3 even though the phone is supported and I 
need a .zip file so I have to go to version 6.0 even though 5.0 seems 
to recommended. It really seems like CME is a very poor stepchild to 
CM. It doesn't even rate it's own heading on this Cisco web page:
http://www.cisco.com/kobayashi/sw-center/sw-voice.shtml

but instead is listed as a sub-head under "Voice Applications 
Software". Gee if I was a developer on this product I'd really be 
cracking some skulls over in marketing. CME is a pretty nice product 
for smaller shops and homes IMHO. Even Unity Express gets its own 
heading.

7. Actually, if anyone knows the CME product marketing manager I'd 
like to speak to that person. They can contact me at 
"leb at iridescent.org".

Best,

leb