[cisco-voip] 8945 Phones impressions

[Dennis Heim]

Wait until beginning of 2012 to deploy these phones. By then 9.2(3) will be released which should fix most of the annoyances.

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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Nate VanMaren
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:07 PM
To: Nathan Reeves; Nick Matthews
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] 8945 Phones impressions

Has anyone had a chance to try the SIP firmware on these phones to see if they are improved?

From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Nathan Reeves
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:26 AM
To: Nick Matthews
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] 8945 Phones impressions

Yeah, the cannibalizing risk seems to make the most sense on the current feature state of firmware.  Same risk applied to the SPA500 series which has the SPCP protocol check to make sure it's working against a UC500 device.  The risk of the phones otherwise replacing the 79XX phones was too high (though the 69XX series appears to be closer to the SPA's).
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Nick Matthews <matthnick at gmail.com<mailto:matthnick at gmail.com>> wrote:
It all more or less makes sense - these are descendants of the 99xx
series phones, but a souped-up 6900 series phone.  More or less just a
cheap way to get video out to some basic employees.  I'm not sure if
Cisco really wants to beef up the firmware on the 69xx series phones
to the point of cannibalizing the 79xx series phones.  Things like no
VPN support, slow UI, maybe even background are definitely because of
the hardware skimps to keep the cost down.

Outside of that - it's pretty cool to be able to get a video phone for
the same price as a 7945.  Video is kind of like IM - valuable in
numbers.  If you can roll this phone out to a big group you can start
to get into the use case.

-nick

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Nathan Reeves
<nathan.a.reeves at gmail.com<mailto:nathan.a.reeves at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Interested to know others impressions of the 8945 (make that 894X) phones.
> Some things noted here from experience (some additonal notes on another guys
> blog post here:http://ben.thepolzins.us/2011/06/22/cisco-894x/).
>
>  - No custom backgrounds.
>  - No customer ringtones
>  - UI is slow to respond.
>  - Services provisioning set to 'Both' causes the phone to only pick up the
> external URL.  Still working on what's going on here.
>  - No custom softkeys.
>  - No 'Hold' on an active call, you have to Park the call.
>  - Internal Web server will submit all variables in a script back to the
> server.  79XX phones will only submit variables where data has been
> entered.  Note that we found the same all variable submission issue on
> SPA5XX phones as well.
>  - Internal web server doesn't submit the browser type and version like the
> 79XX phones did.
>
> All up, nice hardware (esp built in video), shame about the software.  The
> above notes were made against the SCCP software.  Also found that there's no
> specific line item in the Bug toolkit to search against the firmware on
> these phones yet.
> Nathan
>
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