9608 Converted to SIP

[tke837]

Has anyone been successful with converting an H323 9608 to a SIP device? I have an Avaya SBC that we are testing and have Avaya communicator, One X Mobile SIP and SIP trunking working through it. I'd like to be able to get some IP phones to register, but the SBC we have only supports SIP not H323. I am also wondering if functionality is lost vs H323? I have a customer that wants to put single phones at each one of there small locations across the US, and was hoping o use public authentication through the SBC to obtain this

 

[intrigrant]

96xx phones with SIP software loeaded doesn't work on IP Office

 

[tlpeter]

You can do it but it will cost you a power user licence and a 3rd party IP endpoint licence.
Also you will have a very basic phone.
No buttons and no features.

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

 

[tke837]

Thanks for the information guys I figured I'd loose functionality once converted to SIP. Do you know of a way to get an H323 9608 to work with an SBC? My customer is wanting to put out 1-2 IP phones across about 50 locations and he does not want to have to put an expensive VPN appliance at each location. He want to be able to plug and go.

 

[AndrePa]

Indeed a 9608 as SIP Phone works on IPO, but as a basic phone, and needs 3rd party IP endpoint license.
Keep the 9608 as H323 on IPO, and You will only need VPN appliance on the IPO side.

"He want to be able to plug and go." If it were this easy, I, and many of Us here wouldn't have a job. Just saying

 

[tke837]

I have used an Adtran in the past at the hosted and converted the 9608 to a VPN Phone. The only problem I have ran into is when using this one VPN phone used 2 VPN tunnels, one for IP Sec and one for IKE, hence 50 phones equals 100 tunnels. I was hoping there was an alternative way to do this.