[cisco-voip] Phone tftp client vs ftp client

[Wes Sisk]

Anything not released is roadmap and under NDA.  I've not heard any ftp 
discussions but I have heard other transfer protocols discussed.

/Wes

On Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:47:38 PM, Jason Aarons (US) 
<jason.aarons at us.didata.com> wrote:
>
> I wonder if there are any long term plans to switch from tftp to ftp 
> as phone image files keep growing  larger.....seems a phone across a 
> slow wan shouldn't take 15-20 minutes to upgrade a 9MB image.  I 
> switched to ftp/http for router upgrades years ago as it was almost 
> twice as fast. Wish the phones would change from tftp to ftp or http, etc.
>
>  
>
> TFTP benefits
>
>   Small footprint client
>
>  
>
> TFTP limitations
>
>   ACK every packet
>
>   512 byte packet size maximum
>
>  
>
> FTP benefits
>
>    1500 byte packets
>
>    Scaling windows TCP, etc
>
>    No real drawbacks except client footprint is larger
>
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