New remote office connecting to existing 3300, best way?

[MillTechNet]

Hi,

We have a 3300 working on VLAN8 and IP range 192.168.8.0 in our main office. We have PC's running without VLAN on IP range 192.168.1.0

We are about to get a second office a few miles from us. Both offices have fibre links to the Internet but no direct connection between each other.

What I would like to do is make the remote office part of our existing networks. I've achieved this with the PC LANs by setting the remote office PCs to an IP range of 192.168.2.0 and then establishing a VPN between the two PC LANs and thats fine. What I'm struggling to achieve is how we can connect the 9 workers at the remote office's phones to our 3300. Would it be best to use the Teleworker solution from Mitel for each of the 9 remote phones or does anyone have a better idea? All 9 phones might be in use at the same time.

Thanks for any input.

Tim

 

[wireman50]

I would go with a teleworker solution; Mitel Border gateway.

 

[sarond]

Can the Remote IP range reach the phone IP range at your main office? i.e. can 192.168.2.x ping 192.168.8.x

If so then I would keep the remote office on the same vlan/subent for both phones and data and use the VPN to connect back to the controller. This would be cheaper than a teleworker option.

 

[MillTechNet]

Not at the moment it can't but I'm looking to see if this can be made to happen.

 

[danramirez]

As Saron says, I would use the VPN to handle both voice and data traffic. 9 phones is not that much, make sure you put those into a different zone for 729 compression.

Regards,

Daniel

 

[MillTechNet]

Sorry, you lost me when you said "make sure you put those into a different zone for 729 compression" Could you explain further please?

 

[sarond]

Daniel is referring to Network Zones, you can program an extension be be in a network zone that uses compression, this will use the g729 codec. Be aware that this is a licensed feature though.