How To View Your Cisco Sip Ip Phone Firmware Image Version; How To Upgrade Your Cisco Sip Ip Phone Firmware Image - Cisco 7960G Administrator's Manual
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Chapter 4
Managing Cisco SIP IP Phones
How to View Your Cisco SIP IP Phone Firmware Image Version
You can determine your firmware image version.
Procedure
Select Settings > Status.
Step 1
Select Firmware Versions. The Firmware Versions menu appears.
Step 2
View information as needed. The following displays:
Step 3
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Select Exit.
Step 4
How to Upgrade Your Cisco SIP IP Phone Firmware Image
Note
Refer to the
information for all releases.
At some point after you install hardware and the initial firmware image, you could require an upgrade.
You can upgrade by means of either of two methods:
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You can upgrade to follow-on releases from any earlier release. For example:
Each intermediate releases adds key functionality that is necessary for a subsequent upgrade. Each
upgrade provides the following:
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It is possible during the upgrade procedure to configure your system to enable dual-booting from either
SIP or Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP). If it is so configured, during initialization the phone
automatically determines the network in which it is being installed.
Application Load ID—Current software image on the phone.
Boot Load ID—Bootstrap loader image version that is manufactured on the phone. This image name
does not change.
DSP Load ID—Current DSP version on the phone.
Cisco 7940 and 7960 IP Phones Firmware Upgrade Matrix
Upgrade one phone at a time using a phone-defined configuration file.
Upgrade a system of phones using the default configuration file.
-- > Release 2.3 --> Release 5.3 --> Release 7.4
Prevents digital signal processor (DSP) mismatches in the upgrade to a higher release.
Addresses user-interface responsiveness and voice-clipping issues.
Adds image authentication to IP phone protocols, so that tampering with the binary image before
the image is downloaded to the phone is not allowed. Any tampering with the image causes the
phone to fail the authentication process and reject the image.
How to View Your Cisco SIP IP Phone Firmware Image Version
Cisco SIP IP Phone Administrator Guide, Release 6.x and 7.x
for additional upgrade
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