Yeah, this is definitely something to consider. We think we can do something cheaper, until it comes to adding another row to the maintenance schedule.
It's hard in higher ed. We take it as a challenge. But we're never given the resources to maintain the secondary solution.
I'd not consider it unless you were in the thousands of devices and saving 10s of thousands of dollars and the org gives you extra money for the secondary solution and that extra money doesn't equal or is more than just buying the cisco pieces to begin with.
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Lelio,
When we were considering this, we were going to have to come up with some other solution for centralized config. Almost any endpoint will do centralized config, just not from callmanager. We are capable of maintaining two systems but we did decide it wasn't worth it.
I could definitely see someone writing a config generator though, and having the devices TFTP those down from a central store. That's probably what we would have done.
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 8:46 AM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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> What’s the advantage of third party ATAs over Cisco branded?
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> As far as I know, you’d be stuck with a third party SIP device which has little centralized configuration options. Centralized upgrades and true failover are top of my list. Oh, and I’m not a pro, but from what I understand, they don’t understand tftp config so you stuck configuring each device manually.
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> Anyone using Call Manager 11.5 or greater and successfully using a non-Cisco ATA device? We need to upgrade several 186s and looking at options.
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