Computer Network Connectivity Through Phone Reboot

[brenttrucks]

One more question about Avaya phones (or probably all IP phones in general). We run some applications that require a constant network connection. If the connection goes down the programs crash and we have to Ctl-Alt-Del them. We only have 1 Cat 5e drop per computer/phone. Adding another would be a lot of work and due to the setup very difficult in our particular building. One concern in our quest for a phone system as far as going with IP phones is if the phone reboots does it lose the network connection to the computer.

How often our phones going to be rebooting in a typical IP office environment?

This would be a major pain and drawback if this happened weekly or monthly during business hours. Also, when is the network connection available to the computer. I've noticed IP phones sometimes take quite a while to boot.

Is the connection available only after it boots up or right away when power is applied?

I don't have a very good way to test this right now and thought some of you might now from experience.

Thanks again in advance and for all your feedback on my last post.

 

[amriddle01]

It will interupt the data passthrough if you reboot the handset, reason being it momentarily cuts the power as it reboots and also it needs to load a certain level of it's firmware to enable data tagging for vlan's etc. A bit like rebooting your ADSL router will interrupt internet traffic, if you can't afford the outage you need to use either run more cat5, or use cat5 splitters (but this can't be done if you run 1000MB or use POE switches for the handsets)

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[amriddle01]

Also handsets only reboot when told/power failure they don't do so every day or anything like that

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[brenttrucks]

Thanks for the info

 

[Pepp77]

We have one site that has this style setup and they havent had a reboot in over 9 months.

 

[DennyHeack]

I like IP office.

One huge downside is the reboots because of config changes.

If reboots are troublesome, (and it hurts to type this)
don't go ip office.

 

[kwing112000]

once installed and configured properly you should not have to worry about reboots. there really are no day to day changes that require reboots.

Kevin Wing
ACSS Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Communications
ACS- Implement IP Office
ACA- Implement IP Office
Carousel Industries

 

[amriddle01]

I agree they are not everyday changes, but it's a bit of a pain in the ars3 though, even the Alcatels we have had running for Donkeys years allow live changes that IP Office requires reboots for, such as extn number changes (without logging off/on), changes to Analogue CLI/MWI settings etc,etc and I still don't know why line shortcodes would need a reboot

ACSS Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Communications

I've just bought a brand new car and on the way out of the dealership the engine seized, they want £2000 paid in advance to look at it which they will keep if they can find a way to blame me for it......Remind you of anything