Avaya IP phones through SBC 1

[tke837]

Has anyone been successful with getting an avaya ip phone (9608 / 9611) working through an SBC? I have about 50 sites connected via hardware VPN and am looking to have the ability for users to take their phones home with them. I have 50 or so VPN phones setup, but looking for something that runs through SBC since managing all these hardware VPN and vpn phones can be a pain. I've converted ip phones to sip in past but lost practically all features.

Also I'm running an R10.1 server edition with avaya portawell sbc.

 

[tlpeter]

The SBC is SIP only which is stupid in my eyes.
We have one customer with 9608's converted to SIP through the SBC but this is not supported at all.


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

 

[jtc22]

It is an IP Office product limitation as it doesn’t support 96x1 SIP only H.323.

 

[maccabee333]

The 96XX handset only have SIP support on the CM.
They are only H323 on an IP Office. The SBC will only handle SIP devices as it is designed only for SIP its not an Avaya thing. The majority of SBC's are SIP only. When running 96XX on CM PPM setup is required in the SBC to give features to the handet. IP Office doesnt have PPM so if you do run SIP FW on them via the SBC features will be limited on IPO. currently the 96XX UA will be accepted by the IPO but In future may be removed from the accepted list and be blacklisted.

Handsets supported by avaya through the SBC are: E129/J129 11XX/12XX
Soft clients: 1x mobile p iPhone/Android, Windows Communicator, Flare Win/iPad, Communicator for Web(WebRTC - SBC as STUN/TURN)

If you require remote H323, either use the built in VPN back to a FW or use TLS to create a secure connection back to the IP ( still not very secure, just sig/med encrypted) - Remote H323 isnt a thing on a CM/Aura for a reason

 

[IPGuru]

96XX handsets have VPN client software built in
connect them through a suitable VPN instead



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