Ah, the Cisco IP 7940, my greatest adversary, always ringing for the provision of bad news or additional work! I'm not a huge fan of this phone, and not just for the aforementioned reason; but lets start with the good points. It can be connected in a variety of complex and bountiful fashions. As it's wired into a network port, you can have multiple identifiable lines (2) on the same phone, and one line can lead into more than one unit. This is great if you want to set up a call centre, or share a phone line between a few members of a small business or team. Equally, whilst sharing a phone line, you can use your second line as a conduit for personal calls; ...  Read the complete review

I use this phone at work on a day to day basis. There are many features that I like about this phone, but the main one has to be that it is the phone that they use at CTU in the hit television series 24. A silly reason I know, but that reason alone probably makes the rest of my review a little biased.Still, I will give you a bit more detail on the phones functionality. All of the functiobnality on this phone is laid out in a good way. The bottons are not too close together, neither are they too far apart. Someone with larger digits should have no problem in selecting the key they intend. There is a monitor at the top, on the stand upon the ...  Read the complete review

Overview ----------- Up until recently there was a wide variety of telephones in my workplace, then they announced we were getting VOIP phones. Chaos ensued for a while due to the fact that we sell Income Protection, thus the name Voice over IP caused numerous people to ask what this new Income Protection product was about. Thus the project to implement these new phones was changed to Mercury (which clearly makes more sense), apparantly Mercury was the god of telecoms (although Wikipedia says he was a messenger and god of trade, which is probably more accurate *citation needed)... VOIP ------ VOIP or Voice Over Internet ...  Read the complete review

***NOTE*** This review may have appeared in a similar form on Ciao recently. The account used to make the review was mine under a similar pseudonym and through personal choice I have decided to revoke my Ciao membership, focus only on this site, and move any reviews here. Thank you for your kind attention in this matter. Now for the review... On first moving into accommodation equipped with the Cisco IP Phone 7940 Series, I thought I'd entered some high-powered business executives office! However, appearances really are deceptive when it comes to this phone. For practicality purposes, it is a VoIP telephone, and it does the job: you can ...  Read the complete review