Ip office 500v2 Home Setup. Phones and stupid questions.

[CPM86]

I have a IP office 500v2 with version 8.0 release.

It has essential license with 255 instances
and also a 2 port voice mail upgrade.

I have the following modules installed.

2 digital station cards.
1 with 6 digital station port and 4 analog trunk ports
1 with 6 digital stations 2 telephone (analog) ports and 4 analog trunk ports
2 vcm 32 cards with 1 card having PRI card module.

First of for the phones. That is the easy part to find what phones with release of ip office.
Except I'm having trouble understanding amount of phones I can use. Both ip and digital. This is due to
needing endpoint licenses. My understanding is since I have 2 vcm 32 card they come with 16 endpoint licenses to
use 16 voip avaya phones without any additional licenses?
Then, as for the digital stations. Is that 255 number the amount of phones or just a place holder for unlimited?

Another question is using essential license how many additional expansion boxes can I add-on?

Mostly I didn't want to get IP phones if I need licenses and the same with additional boxes.


Thanks,

Josh

 

[budbyrd]

Digital ports are limited to the number of physical ports or 384 which ever comes first. The 255 is just a number saying the license is valid. You can have up to 8 expansions without buying a four port expansion card... but unless you have a really big house I don't see the point.

Dermis and feline can be divorced by manifold methods.*
*(Disclaimer for all advise given)--'Version Dependent'

 

[ipohead]

Yes things are not always clear!

Digital and analogue ports don't need a licence (unlike some other systems).
VCM32 V1 came with 12 Avaya endpoints licence, V2 did not. if you system is R8 you probably have V1s. You should be able to see the licences in Manager.
The PRI module can only use 8 channels if you don't have licence but unlikely to be an issue at home.
Expansion modules don't need a licence.
255 just means an unlimited licence.

 

[CPM86]

Thank you for the reply and help.

Yes It is version 1 of the VCM32 cards and the licenses show up as 24 end point due to the 2 cards being installed.
So if I understand I can have 24 Avaya IP phones that is allowed on the Release 8.0 list?

As for the PRI card. That will be for a later project or projects probably using a sip or cisco voip gateway with fxo and fxs ports.
possible Asterisk too.

Thank You,

Josh

 

[gwebster]

Avaya had discontinued most of not all of the IP phones which are compatible with that version of IPO.

 

[ipohead]

CP/M86 - that's going back a long way!

Plenty of phones on auctions sites but do look at refurbishers who sometimes are not much more and you know it will work.

I recall earlier releases did not necessarily include the virtual endpoint licences with VCMs.