CISCO 7970 SIP setup

[maurice.keightley]

Would like to setup SIP on a Cisco 7970 IP Phone. 

Have downloaded the following SIP firmware from cisco site. But not sure where to go from here.

7970 and 7971 SIP IP firmware files only - Compatible CUCM Versions: 7.1(5)+ 
cmterm-7970_7971-sip.9-4-2SR2-2.zip

[Leo Laohoo]

Would like to setup SIP on a Cisco 7970 IP Phone. 

Kindly provide more information.  Are you planning to use the phone with a Cisco-based CallManager or a 3rd party (non-Cisco based) CallManager?

[maurice.keightley]

I have a sip account with telegate service and wish to set it up so I can receive and make calls. Am a newbie at this and not sure what callmanager Im using or want to use.

[maurice.keightley]

Any ideas guys would be helpful?

[Glenn Martin]

Moving discussion to the IP Telephony forum.

[Bill Mungaven]

If you're using the phone on a CUCM of some sort, why do you want to use SIP instead of SCCP?

Is there an advantage to using SIP over SCCP?

On 79xx phones, I've never used SIP over SCCP since SCCP works well.

Just curious.

Bill