New Phone System @ Walmart?

[Acidpez]

Cisco 7962

Seems like you can see CID of people holding or calling in. This could turn in to some wicked funny pranks by calling people back saying your from wal mart.  I dont know what other mayhem could be done since this is a VOIP Phone.   PLA. Discuss

[Copyright]

These (Cisco IP) phones are starting to turn up everywhere. I've seen them at countless dep't stores, as well as many local businesses using them. What's so great about them?

[nyphonejacks]

these are the phones that the company i work for prefers to install... but currently they have been installing polycom phones because the supplier has the cisco phones on backorder...

[Red Type]

These (Cisco IP) phones are starting to turn up everywhere. I've seen them at countless dep't stores, as well as many local businesses using them. What's so great about them?

Thread Necromancy

Set up complicated PBX with a bunch of complicated rules and complicated boxes and complicated plans and complicated wiring and spend a complicated amount of money doing it...

OR

Slap a standardized, pre-configured server into a room, run some cat5e, and connect that sucker to the internet.

[rbcp]

I thought I posted in here before about this, but when I attempted to do Black Friday Part Deux, all the phones were gone from the posts in Wal-Mart and the one phone I found was in the paint department.  It was that same Cisco 7962.  That's an awesome idea about scrolling through the caller ID and getting customers phone numbers.

[not a banana]

But the jacks are still in the wall, right? Bring your own one piece phone.

[nyphonejacks]

so... what exactly are the SIP settings then - since you claim that he can just use the same network jack to connect a phone...

[not a banana]

Why would they replace the wiring in a jack they would not use a phone in? Ever since that 16 year old told the people in New Jersey that black people had to leave the store, they decided they would not have wall phones in the store. But maybe they did replace them, I don't know.

[nyphonejacks]

Why would they replace the wiring in a jack they would not use a phone in? Ever since that 16 year old told the people in New Jersey that black people had to leave the store, they decided they would not have wall phones in the store. But maybe they did replace them, I don't know.

i am really confused at what you are trying to say...

the phone(s) being discussed on this thread are cisco 7960 series phones - which are SIP phones that connect to the internet, so plugging a POTS phone into the ethernet jack will not provide dial tone to the phone.. even if they were just using a PBX not all PBX systems would allow you to connect a standard POTS telephone to the jack, and the ones that did, you would have to assume that the jack was wired in the phone closed, and programmed in the PBX..

[handl3r]

Why would they replace the wiring in a jack they would not use a phone in? Ever since that 16 year old told the people in New Jersey that black people had to leave the store, they decided they would not have wall phones in the store. But maybe they did replace them, I don't know.

i am really confused at what you are trying to say...

the phone(s) being discussed on this thread are cisco 7960 series phones - which are SIP phones that connect to the internet, so plugging a POTS phone into the ethernet jack will not provide dial tone to the phone.. even if they were just using a PBX not all PBX systems would allow you to connect a standard POTS telephone to the jack, and the ones that did, you would have to assume that the jack was wired in the phone closed, and programmed in the PBX..

It is unlikely that the phones have any contact to the internet. There may be a gateway device that that allows the phones to make outgoing calls via a voip service. But most likely is that they have a bank of Analogue Telephone Adapters that interface the Cisco system to the POTS for incoming and outgoing calls.

[nyphonejacks]

why would they bother?

hosted PBX is a cheaper, easier solution than needing to have an asterisk box on site - especially with larger chain stores... reducing hardware costs and operating costs... why would they even bother to use IP phones if they were just connected to POTS lines in some phone closet?

the company I currently work for does not install IP phones and connect them to some out dated, over priced POTS service... we connect them to our hosted PBX...