Will 7965 IP phone work as a teleworker phone with UC540

[sdbowers2010]

We have a UC540 in a central office location.  We have 2 remote offices located in other cities.  Can model 7965 IP phone be used at the remote locations? - assuming we have adequate licenses of course.

I'm a technical person, but not a Cisco person.  So please forgive my ignorance.

thanks!

Steve Bowers                  

[johschaf]

Hello Steve,

The 7965s are not capable of VPNing to a UC. The only phone that can do that with the UC is the SPA525G2. If you already have a VPN existing between the sites, then you could use the 7965s at the remote location.

Thanks,

-john

[danplacek]

SSL VPN is only supported on the SPA525 at this time.

The only way to use a 7965 as a teleworker would be with a VPN tunnel provided by a separate router. (SR520/ASA5505/881 or something similar)

If there are a larger amount of phones at the remote locations, you could look at putting another UC there and doing a multi-site deployment with inter-site dialing.