Cisco switches with avaya ip phones cisco community. Avaya ip phone and cisco switch config cisco community. Midsize enterprise software is installed and configured on avaya system. The featured cisco ip phones the 8800 series the advanced cisco ip phone 8800 series is a great fit for small to large businesses seeking highquality, fullfeatured voip communications. Cisco trunk interface and native vlan when a cisco switch is configured as a trunk interface, by default, traffic becoming to the native vlan vlan 1 is not trunk encapsulated. Aug 30, 2006 ciscophonethis macro is for the switch port where the ip phone is directly connected to it and a pc can be connected to the phone. There may be times where it is desirable to have the dhcp running on a piece of networking equipment on a remote site, so that a separate server is not needed for the role. These application notes cover a configuration where ip telephones sip and h. I personally prefer the extreme networks switches to the cisco. Heres a sample configuration detailing how to configure a cisco router as a dhcp server for avaya formerly nortel ip phones including the avaya nortel specific dhcp options 128 and 191. Cisco uses the native vlan for such proprietary protocols such as cdp, pagp, and vtp. The voice quality of these handsets ensures that employees can communicate clearly and efficiently from virtually any location. I can see the dhcp is renewing ip addresses to phones.
Avaya support downloads enterprise switch manager v6. The following example shows the cisco ios ethernet switch commands that demonstrate and optimize an environment needed for ip telephony and video. After some troubleshooting we figured out that if we assigned static ip addressgateway etc on the avaya phones then they would work fine. Configure cisco switch port for avaya ip phone solutions. Id blog about some of the configuration steps involved along the way. Avaya switches cannot drive enough power to have a cisco phone on every ers port, other than that, no issues, so watch your power consumption on the switch, else phones will start powering themselves off if too much power is being drawn. Cisco spa512g ip phone in cameroon is a 1 line ip phone with 2 giga port and poe. Avaya and cisco interoperability technical configuration guide. The 8800 series is ideal for knowledge workers, as well as administrative, managerial, and executive staff. When a cdpenabled ip phone is connected to the codec through a switch, you can configure the switch to forward cdp packets from the ip phone only to the codec in the cisco. Cisco 8945, 9951, and 9971 ip phones g6430 media gateway software requirements the following software is required.
Avaya ip phone with cisco catalyst switches cisco community. On trunk uplink interfaces connecting to other switches. I thought i would share this information with the nortelavaya users in case they are utilizing or wish to utilize the dhcp server functionality builtin. Configuration for vlans and qos avaya ip telephones can receive vlan assignment and qos tagging information in several ways. Avaya media servers and gateways running multivantage telephony software and avaya ip office were configured to work with foundry networks bigiron and fastiron edge switches. Features include dual gigabit ethernet switched ports, speakerphone, caller id, call hold, conferencing, and more. Voice vlan configuration on cisco switches for noncisco ip. An avaya uc system does have limits on the number of extensions, the users ability to make some system adjustments, and occasionally with call reliability. Related tasks configuring the priority of incoming data frames cli related references monitoring voice vlan voice vlan configuration guidelines. I configure the avaya phone 1608 in passthru mode, so that the authetication is forwaded to the pc. In this guide the nortel ip phone 1140e is configured to use both data and voice vlans. The avaya phones are a mixture of 9630 and 9630g hardware all running the same code level and configuration file.
The featured cisco ip phonesthe 8800 series the advanced cisco ip phone 8800 series is a great fit for small to large businesses seeking highquality, fullfeatured voip communications. The autoqos features provide qos service for the avaya s87xx series servers running avaya communication manager software and the avaya ip telephones using a cisco network infrastructure. The cisco sip ip phone software allows businesses and service providers to use the cisco 7940 and 7960 ip phone platforms in any standard sip network. The switch already knows about one avaya oui mac and that should be in the table already. Avaya is helping us make a difference for healthcare and the local communities we serve. Use the telepresence e911 ip phone support feature to ensure that the ip phone is always on and available for emergency calls. Supposedly, the phone would be able to connect without any authentication but it doesnt. Weve been able to quickly act to provide better healthcare services and a better patient experience overall. Also with extremes epicenter software you can communicate with the ip office. Sip protocol allow you to connects directly to an internet telephone service provider or to an ip pbx. Therefore, future changes in catalyst switch software could impact the use of this adapter. The sip software provides for both onboard traditional desktop services such as callerid, call hold, call transfer, 3way calling, and call waiting as well as an xml interface to allow for. Cisco phone and avaya switch network infrastructure forums. Voice vlan configuration on cisco switches for noncisco.
We have an avaya ip office v2 phone system, it was supplied with an avaya 3526t 24 port poe switch, due to expansion within the business i need to add an additional switch to allow us to add more phones. Avaya cisco interoperability april 2010 technical configuration guide 4 avaya. This personal speakerphone is compact and portable so you can make any space a conference room. Ip office phones to legacy pbx site with cisco gateway. The pcs will be plugged into the back of the phones, which will be patched into a switch. Cisco pbx cameroon cisco telephone system douala cisco phone. After that discovery we thought possibly dhcp related.
Separate voice and data vlans for the phone and the pc. Ip office phones to pstn domestic us and international. This document provides sample configurations on catalyst switches in order to connect to cisco ip phones. Videos and tips on using the avaya support website can be found here. These phones can be connected to an avaya switch that supplies inline power to the phones. The first is the cisco way only works with cisco switches and cisco phones, and requires cdp as thats how the phone gets the voicevlan information. This document includes the switch port, power inline, and quality of service qos configurations. It will cover features on cisco switches related to voip with configuration examples.
Cisco trunk interface and native vlan when a cisco switch is configured as a trunk interface, by. Cisco catalyst test configurations for the avaya ip telephone power adapter cisco switch. Use a cisco ios switch to serve dhcp to avaya phones. Use the support by product shortcut at the top of each page, and select your product and release to find the latest product and support notices, the latest and top documentation, latest downloads, and the top solutions that agents are using to close customer tickets. In scenarios where we have cisco based networking infrastructure and some other vendor ip voice setup like avaya etc.
The switches are a mixture of 2960 v15 and 3560 v12. The native vlan should be vlan 1 data and the voice vlan should. The problem is when plugging the phone onto the switch it cannot find the voice dhcp server which is the avaya cu, the phone just keeps on searching the dhcp but by manually putting the voice vlan id in the phone address menu and after it reboot, it applies the correct ip address e. Theyre functionally identical at the ethernet level. Im connecting avaya 4620 ip phones and need to know how to configure the switch ports. View and download avaya 3616 installation and configuration manual online.
Catalyst 3750x and 3560x switch software configuration. The switch port configuration uses a predefined macro which configures the switch port. Avaya ip phone and cisco switch config in you configuration on port 105, i am assuming is connected on the port that connects to a avaya phone and a pc via phone port. This is required to support some ip phone models 7 2212012 7. It is targeted for mediumvolume users that need the full range of telephony features. The document covers a lot of information including etherchannel to mlt interoperability, spanning tree interoperability, nortel ip phones connecting to cisco switches and cisco ip phones connecting to nortel switches. Cisco router configuration for pointtopoint wan links.
Avaya voip phones require a special option in a dhcp scope, so they know how to make calls. Because a cisco 7960 ip phone also supports a connection to a pc or other device, a port connecting the device to a cisco ip phone can carry mixed traffic. In this example there are two vlans on each port of a cisco switch running ios. All, i am trying to find the best practice for setting up avaya ip phones on a cisco network. I thought i would share this information with the nortel avaya. Voice vlan configuration on cisco switches for noncisco ip phones. Cisco does not specifically support the use of this adapter.
We have a dhcp server and an avaya cse communications server, a cisco 2960s poe switch, a pc and an avaya 1120e ip desk phone. Without avaya, it would be much more difficult for us to move forward technologically. Lldp txtlv syscap added to interface level in section 2. Jul 24, 2017 configuring voip phones in cisco packet tracer duration. The additional configuration between session manager and communication manager acting as an evolution server is assumed to already be in place, setup and configuration. Heres a sample configuration detailing how to configure a cisco router as a dhcp server for avaya formerly nortel ip phones including the avayanortel specific dhcp options 128 and 191. Cisco is good too but i found the configuration easier with the extremes. Use the support by product shortcut at the top of each page, and select your product and release to find the latest. Switch port to connect avaya ip office system need to be access or trunk.
Setting up voice vlan exclisively 2960 switches with ip. Cisco 2960s switches with autoqos for voip and avaya 9611g. Configure voice and data vlans in cisco catalyst 3750e switch. The focus of this guide is to configure cisco switch to interoperate with nortel ip phones. Updated based on all avaya ip phones and added features on various avaya switches. A sample configuration of autoqos for voip on cisco 3825.
Avaya definity, originally produced by lucent technologies, offers a scalable solution with the ability to grow without changing an entire communication system. A second look at switchport configuration also does not show any configuration. Avaya j169 gigabit ip phone 7005634 the avaya j169 ip phone is an ip phone that addresses the need for everyday voice communications. You can configure a port to decide how the cisco ip phone. What is the best cisco port configuration for avaya 9620l. In this example there are two vlans on each port of a cisco switch. Avaya 3616 installation and configuration manual pdf download.
Configure ios catalyst switches to connect cisco ip phones. Also with extremes epicenter software you can communicate with the ip. This behaviour is experienced intermittently and usually occurs on ports which are configured as hybrid ports. Our company runs cisco phones over avaya 55xx switches. Avaya ip phone when connected to a cisco catalyst switch configured with voice vlan stops when the switch port is configured as a switch port access but when. Still the ip phone is part of data vlan and not voice vlan. Setting up the desk phone configuration on avaya onex agent duration. In my experience in the cisco voip world we would use the switchport. Avaya support notices for software documentation, 03600758, and avaya support notices for hardware documentation.
This macro configures the port with the access vlan, voice vlan, port security, spanningtree portfastbpduguard, and auto qos voip ciscophone. The second will work with any voip phone configured to process and strip the vlan how it gets configured depends on the phone. If the avaya server is on a different network from the voip phones, you. Cisco voip phones on avaya switches network infrastructure.
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