[cisco-voip] Cisco & Avaya integration

[Jim McBurnett]

But does every Avaya phone support the SIP load?


SIP - CME 3.4 or 4.0

SIP trunks too, if Avaya supports it!

 Thanks,
jim

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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Nick Marus
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:52 AM
To: robert.bell1 at comcast.net
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Cisco & Avaya integration

I work for a company that deploys both avaya and cisco voip and we have
been asked to similar stuff. I have done the opposite, that is getting a
cisco phone with a sip image working on an avaya. For what you want, as
far as i know, this would require the Avaya phones to be running the
avaya sip image and you would need cm5 for sip phone set support. I am
wanting to lab up something similar myself using the 4610/4620's. The
4606 is an older avaya phone and may not support sip, and I dont think
it is being sold anymore. I cant recall tho.

For #2, Cisco Phones use tftp just as avaya does. the server can be
anything that can do host tftp. Avaya's files are slightly differnt in
format, but essentially the same. A config file and a firmware load.
Avaya does require differnt dhcp options to tell the phone where the
tftp server is tho. Cisco =150, avaya is 176 and uses a string that
includes several required options.

Everything between avaya and Cisco can integrate (both directions) if
you use h323 on your cisco gateways. i have a callmanager that gets
trunks directly from an avaya s8700 with no external cisco gateway and I
have worked on some other sites that have avaya trunking to a cisco
h323 gateway.

Nick

On 6/28/06, robert.bell1 at comcast.net <robert.bell1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> Maybe I'm crazy, but we are upgrading out layer 2 infrastructure to 
> Cisco 3560 switches and the question was raised, what would that do to

> our Avaya VoIP solution (Please don't flame me, I have no choice over
VoIP solutions).
>  I'm much more familiar with Cisco CallManager and CCME.
>
>
>
> I got this crazy idea though:  Why can't I make Avaya phones work with

> our CCME routers?  I'm not really sure how they operate, but I assume 
> they are similar to Cisco phones.  I think I found some firmware I 
> have to push to them, but I have a few questions:
>
> 1.  Has anyone successfully done what I propose (Avaya IP phones 
> working on a Cisco VoIP network?  And if so can I see your config 
> files relevant to making that work.
>
> 2.  Does anyone know the requirements for the Avaya IP phones?  For 
> instance, I know the Cisco phones require the firmware to be 
> downloaded and pulls the config from the router.  It looks like the 
> Avaya phones also need to pull the config as a file from a tftp 
> server, but I really don't know anything about Avaya VoIP.  If anyone 
> has a link to the basic requirements / operation I'd appreciate it. 
> Oh, and FYI - I've got an Avaya 4606 phone to play with.
>
>
>
> My basic goal was to make sure the phones were compatible with the PoE

> provided by the Cisco 3560 switches (which it is) and to make sure 
> that it would continue to work with the existing Avaya VoIP solution 
> (which it will). I just thought it would be neat to see them work 
> integrated and possibly use SRST for remote survivability of our
outsites using VoIP.
>
>
>
> B.
>
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