Cisco VOIP w/ fiber NIC (7800/8800 Series)

[mark.tinsley]

Does anyone know of a Cisco VOIP phone that supports direct fiber connection from phone to switch?

[b.winter]

If you would check the datasheets, then you could answer this question.

Short answer: No

Why would you need a phone with a fiber port? How many bandwidth do you need to for a phone call?!

[B Ingle]

Because my campus environment is renovating many buildings and no longer installs POTS lines, fiber only. I still require phones in the building for 911 purposes. I don't want to purchase a small switch and UPS just to install 1 phone. If I could just plug the phone into the fiber coming into the building and have no other equipment "that'd be great"

[Roger Kallberg]

Why are you posting this on a two years old post and writing it as if it sounds like you were the OP?

[B Ingle]

Just came across the problem set in the past year. Looking to see if anyone else on the internet has the same problem. Turns out, yeah. 

[Roger Kallberg]

There are no phones from Cisco that has a fibre connection. This would be quite easy for you to find out by looking through the data sheets for phones on cisco.com.

[Leo Laohoo]

Depends on how much you want to spend.  This is called "TEMPEST".  

There is only one company doing this:  Cisco 8841 Fiber Enabled VoIP Phone