GIG Ethernet phone support

Gerald Littlejohn · ‎08-18-2011

what gig ethernet phones are supported on the UC500 platforms, really would like the 6945 but it appears this is not. Any plans to support this phone

John Platts · ‎08-19-2011

The Gigabit Ethernet phones supported on the UC500 series today include the following:

CP-7941G-GE (discontinued)
CP-7945G
CP-7961G-GE (discontinued)
CP-7965G
CP-7971G-GE (discontinued)
CP-7975G

Here are the new Gigabit Ethernet phones not yet supported on the UC500:

CP-6945
CP-8945
CP-8961
CP-9951
CP-9971

Gerald Littlejohn · ‎08-19-2011

Thanks John for your prompt reply. The issue my partners have is the cost of the 7900 phones as the only GE supported device. Customers have PC's with GE NIC and would like a phone with GE connectivity. Do you know of any plans for 6945 support? Is this likely any time soon?

John Platts · ‎08-19-2011

To use 6945 phones with Cisco Unified CME, you either have to upgrade to CME 8.8 (which is not yet available for the UC500) or you have to add the following to the UC500 configuration using CLI:

ephone-type 6945

device-id 564

device-name Cisco IP Phone 6945

device-type 6945

num-buttons 4

max-presentation 2

phoneload

In addition, you will either need to manually upload the 6945 phone load to the UC500 in order to get it working, or use a UC500 software pack that includes the 6945 phone load (which is not yet available).

There is no CCA support for the 6945 IP phone yet. The next UC500 software pack is due to be released in January 2012. I am not sure whether or not the January 2012 software pack release for the UC500 will include an IOS image that has full support for the 6945 IP phone or the phone load for the 6945 IP phone.