Converting QE phones to IP phones

[Selleb]

Hi,

Does anyone know or any R&D personnel able to enlighten me is there any way to convert the QE ip phones 4610 and 4621 to the usual PABX/Media Server ip phones?

Just wonder whether anybody, location using the QE phones ? I am researching any location, countries which are popular in this terminology as compare to the usual PABX/ Media Server.

I would like to know more people in this area so that we can discuss anything/ research in this area.


Really need help.

 

[mrjedi]

I have a LAB environment with Avaya s8300/g700 with a mix of IP, Digital and Analogue phones connecting to SIP server and one g11 one-x quick edition and 2 x QE phones. Works fine. I have also set up another QE phone in a remote location which has VPN back to the office. I can either connect it as a teleworker extension ( but this need to be registered at the LAB first ) or connect it as a user in the SIP server. All phones talking to each other. Saying that, it took us 2 months and very little help from Avaya.

 

[Selleb]

Wow,this is hard work Mr Jedi. At least you have a lab to test. By the way,have you tried convert any QE phone to become an IP normal pabx phone before ?

Is your location and country popular in QE phones ?

Thanks

 

[mrjedi]

its new in the UK and I don't think many people have done this. I have not tried it as I need these phones for my test. I know for a fact that you can't convert the 4610 phone from IP to QE.

 

[Nick44]

Like Mt Jedi I am in the UK, and we have not had these too long, however I am told that if you convert an IP phone to run SiP by blowing in the firmware from Avaya, once done you cannot go back.


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[Selleb]

Hi,

Put it in the safe side... maybe we cannot convert the QE phones to IP phones at the present moment or vice versa... I am glad now at least somewhere in UK are having QE phones too...at least now I know Mr Jedi and Nick who knows something about QE...Hope to know new friends around the world. In my location, QE still new...we are thinking very hard how to roll-out this product as popular as compare to their peers (Media Servers), My job role are both technical and sales person(very tough to merge between them). I wonder are there anyone who have promote QE phones in sales and technical successfully in this forum. Would like to learn more and of course if one day, we are successful we will share our experiences in this forum. I am a technical avaya trained person but sadly to say I am working in an environment when the rest of the sales people know very less percentage of technical know how, is tough but an advantage of myself being alone know more on avaya technical knowledge than other sales folks...Thanks !

 

[mrjedi]

The problem with Qe is that it is developed by the SME team. Enterprise team have come out with the I40 which is also quite cool. But the two have different programming and can be connected via SIP back to CM. We are about to buy one of these and add this to the CM/SIP/QE network and see how it works. QE's advantage is that you can connect to people like Gamma and Global and breakout from different country so if you have an HQ in USA and an office in Moscow with 8 people, you can use the QE to connect to your SIP server in USA, breakout to local PSTS in Moscow and connect to Global Crossing and have a US number allocated to you. ( technically you don't need to connect to CM )