I've been digging around with some cisco engineers for about a week & I finally got an encouraging response to the Auto-Answer issue with the SIP Phones.
Here is their reply:
=============== == FROM CISCO == ===============
Auto-Answer feature is introduced in SIP IP Phone 6.0 version. This software version
is expected to be available for customers shortly.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
============== == END CISCO == ==============
Hopefully we'll finally have an intercom/paging solution with Cisco SIP Phones!!!
Thought I would share the news with any/all who are interested.
This is very good news. I'll be very interested to see how Cisco has chosen to implement SIP-based paging and/or intercom (i.e.: auto-answer.)
On the analog front, since we're talking about paging or intercom: it has been mentioned that the Sayson ADSI phones (Aastra?) are integrated with an Altigen PBX system, that the phones can support paging. See the link below.
http://www.sayson.com/product/Altigen.htm
If this could be combined with a Cisco ATA-186 or similar product, would it not be possible to have paging via SIP delivery? I have not put anything other than the most basic thought into this, and I don't know exactly how they support ADSI-based paging, but has anyone worked on this? I mentioned it via IRC and someone said they took a half-hearted stab at it, but it didn't sound like it had been explored in depth. That is a major feature issue that most business customers are looking for, and it would be great to have some combination of devices that offered paging or intercom.
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