We just finished testing the Cisco 8945 IP phone with CME using SCCP and it worked great. Point to point video works flawlessly. A few things to note in setting up these phones:
- Make sure you add the “video” command under telephony-service as well as under the ephone.
- We found that we could not call out our PRI with these phones once video was enabled. We had to add “bearer-cap Speech” under the voice-port to force speech only out the PRI. (The phones were trying to advertise video capabilities out the PRI and our service provider didn’t like that!)
- Although the phones are capable of sending and receiving 640×480 (VGA) video we were noticing that the max we were getting was 325×288 (CIF) resolution. We found that VT Advantage (which is what CME uses) maxes out at CIF resolution per this document.
- Bluetooth works great, setup was very easy!
- You can’t change the background on this phone — dissapointing!
Here are the relevant parts of the config:
!
!
voice-port 0/0/0:23
bearer-cap Speech
!
!
telephony-service
video
!
!
ephone 18
device-security-mode none
description 8945_A
video
mac-address 0000.AAAA.BBBB
max-calls-per-button 3
busy-trigger-per-button 2
type 8945
button 1:1
!
!
ephone 19
device-security-mode none
description 8945_B
video
mac-address 0000.1111.2222
max-calls-per-button 3
busy-trigger-per-button 2
type 8945
button 1:2
!
!