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I got a couple of Cisco 7940 and 7960 and tried almost every thing that’s relevant to and Asterisk. Therefore i went through different experience and some issues as well, hopefully those all I will discuss later. For now let’s try to load the on a Cisco , also we will configure it’s SIP account with . Basically i can’t see any difference between Cisco 7940 and Cisco 7960 except one button but that really doesn’t matter if you are using . If you need or , you are on right place.

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Cisco phone often come with SCCP protocol which probably Asterisk doesn’t support. So we need to install on the Cisco phone the latest version is 8.2 but you may have some natting issues there fore 7.4 will be a best option. If you got a new Cisco 7960 phone have then you can’t directly, first you will have to load version 6.x then you will upgrade it to 7.4.

  1. You can download latest SIP firmware version from here. Of course you need a . will have the following:

1) OS79XX.TXT - text file in which you should write the name of the image version (IMPORTANT This file is case sensitive and it must only contain the name of the file that you are attempting to load, without the .bin extension.)
2) P003-xx-y-zz.bin - where xx-y-zz is the number of the image version
3) P003-xx-y-zz.sbn - where xx-u-zz is the number of the image version
4) P0S3-xx-y-zz.loads - where xx-u-zz is the number of the image version and “S” is for SIP
5) P0S3-xx-y-zz.sb2 - where xx-u-zz is the number of the image version and “S” is for SIP

  1. You would need below configuration files which you will place on along to load on the phone. You can download these all files from here just modify these example files according to your need.
  1. . You can download it from here
  • SIP.cnf ; Just a MAC address back on the Cisco 7960 phone Example: SIP00036BAAD139.cnf (Where the last 12 hex digits is the MAC address of your Cisco phone)

  • SIPDefault.cnf (Contains generic parameters for all Cisco phones at your location)

In addition, the following optional files may also be present in the TFTP directory:

  • dialplan.xml (contains entries like “9,1….” that cause the phone to automatically dial after a match)
  • RINGLIST.DAT (a list of ringing tones to be downloaded, like ringer1.pcm)
  • ringer1.pcm (a ringing tone to be downloaded to the phone)


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