[cisco-voip] Cisco & Avaya integration

[Nick Marus]

Yes. You can get firmware to convert the phone to sip from Avaya.

On 6/29/06, Jim McBurnett <jim at tgasolutions.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> [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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