For the regular helpers, I do have a couple other threads, but while they are dealing with the same project I am working on, they are on different specific subjects so I decided to create another thread to ensure no confusion.
I have learned a lot over the past week in researching this, but still feel I am missing something that will lead me to an answer.
We have a Definity G3siV9.5, and oldie, but it has worked well for us. We have about 400 users. Nothing fancy really. What we are needing to do is migrate users over to a Sonus SBC for UC, which is already configured and ready to accept a T1/PRI input.
I know UDP, trunk-group, aar etc. need to be configured to make this work. I cannot afford (due to downtime) to do a hard cutover so I am hoping to implement the Sonus downstream of the PBX and have users migrated over to the UC system, making the proper programming changes related to the extensions in the PBX to route those users to the UC as they get migrated.
What cards, hardware, and features am I needing/looking for to create the T1/PRI outbound trunk from the PBX to the Sonus UC system? More importantly, what software features are needed? I can only find info on using QSIG trunking but that is for higher versions than I have. I understand (somewhat) what QSIG does; however, I am not sure we need QSIG bc as far as I can tell it is to send additional features like mwl, cid, etc. While those are nice to have, we can deal without those things during the migration. We don't need most of them, we just need a pure (if I can call it that) signal route from the PBX to the UC device.
You guys are fantastic Avaya teachers so I am hoping someone can help me straighten this out. I can't get a straight answer it seems from anyone. Thanks!
(PBX SPECS ARE ATTACHED)
I have learned a lot over the past week in researching this, but still feel I am missing something that will lead me to an answer.
We have a Definity G3siV9.5, and oldie, but it has worked well for us. We have about 400 users. Nothing fancy really. What we are needing to do is migrate users over to a Sonus SBC for UC, which is already configured and ready to accept a T1/PRI input.
I know UDP, trunk-group, aar etc. need to be configured to make this work. I cannot afford (due to downtime) to do a hard cutover so I am hoping to implement the Sonus downstream of the PBX and have users migrated over to the UC system, making the proper programming changes related to the extensions in the PBX to route those users to the UC as they get migrated.
What cards, hardware, and features am I needing/looking for to create the T1/PRI outbound trunk from the PBX to the Sonus UC system? More importantly, what software features are needed? I can only find info on using QSIG trunking but that is for higher versions than I have. I understand (somewhat) what QSIG does; however, I am not sure we need QSIG bc as far as I can tell it is to send additional features like mwl, cid, etc. While those are nice to have, we can deal without those things during the migration. We don't need most of them, we just need a pure (if I can call it that) signal route from the PBX to the UC device.
You guys are fantastic Avaya teachers so I am hoping someone can help me straighten this out. I can't get a straight answer it seems from anyone. Thanks!
(PBX SPECS ARE ATTACHED)