Installing IP licenses

[curlycord]

I am hearing that in the past you only needed to buy a license per client.

No I am hearing you need to by 2 licences?
1 for server and one for client now?
This is if a person will need it all for themself.

If so what release did this system change?

Next question is if I get one license can I share between IP set and softphone at home as long as not used at same time?.

And sofphone software is not on the BCM anymore?....good grief!


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[Deweyhumbolt]

All I can vouch for is all BCMs from 2.5 to 4.0, and BCM50s R1 and R2 need 1 IP Client to work 1 IP telephone, whether soft or hard. Yes, you could use 1 license and trade between soft and hard at home.

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[Frideo]

With BCM50 R2 and R3 (and I reckon R1 as well), the licences for the IP Clients are for *simultaneous* use of the IP phones.

If you have a hard phone in work and a soft phone at home, then one IP Client licence could suffice, but you'd have to power off the IP phone in work when you want to use the softphone.

Also, in the EM, there's a tickbox for each IP phone for "keep alive".
If you tick this, then the IP phone is kept alive even when it's powered off, which means that the call-forward (and other features that usually need phone connected) is still active.

However, ticking the box for keep-alive means that powering it off does not give up the ip licence for another phone to use.
In this case, you'd want two IP licences - one for work and one for home.


The Softphone 2050 V2 came out about the same time as the BCM50R2. Nortel then stopped providing the softphone on the BCM50. Still, an old version of the softphone from a R1 machine will still work on R2 and R3.

 

[gwebster]

Softphone 2050v3 does require a separate licence which is loaded on a PC running a "licence server" application.

2050v3 is currently not supported on BCM.

 

[Dasheen]

U need to deregister the set to reuse it's license.

 

[cook1082]

From what I've seen is what Dasheen said, now that is for hard IP sets. But you can share the licence for the 2050's as long as one of them are not in use.

 

[curlycord]

So it's like this so far...

1. IP license required for each phone or softphone
2. Can share as long as one is powered off and keep alive is off.....or you need to de-register phone?.
Need clarity on this, 2 say yes and 2 no.
3. Nortel no longer supplies Softphone on BCM but rather sells it on a CD or download from Nortel site.
4. Softphone 2050v3, this is probably the culprit that confused me. If I recall that version is for Succession.
Regardless it needs it's own licence and cannot share.

Thanks





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