What do I need to Get VOIP going on my OLD G3 switch?

[Techgoober]

I have been instructed to find out what it will take to get VOIP going on our old G3 definity Ver 11. I have no network connectivity on it at this moment so I am on the ground floor looking up.

Any help would be truly appreciated.

Jeff

 

[DontDeleteMeAgain]

you need a clan board & an ip address

 

[Techgoober]

Is that all I need?

Then I just get softphone software and point it at that IP?

 

[steeltown89]

If you are going to use softphon Telecommuter (PBX dials a LAN line phone) mode, yes. If you want road warrior or a hard VoIP phone then you need a MedPro too (only TN2302's work on that old of a version).

 

[DontDeleteMeAgain]

sorry (thanks Chandler) i forgot to mention the medpro board!!!!

 

[fondog2]

Techgoober,
I think what you need to do is figure out what you want to do first. Do you want true IP telephony or do you want to do IP trunking? Are you trying to use toll bypass to cut down on long distance? Or are you trying to cut time on station connections? Although the G3's are a reliable switch you might want to look into upgrading. And one of the advantages is survivability. If your G3 goes down, will you be able to make calls. Presenting this to the powers above might help you get the IP and a lot of new features. Let us know what you want and we will do our best to help.

 

[4merAvaya]

In addition to the above mentioned hardware, you will have to purchase the appropriate RTU (station or trunk) from Avaya. In switches prior to CM 2.2 it can get pretty expensive. Each IP Station RTU is around $100.00.

Kevin

 

[definityandcmuk]

you also need to ensure you enable QoS on your network

 

[Techgoober]

I think all they want me to do is to set up the system so we can have Telecommuters at this time.

 

[supertech2000]

As 4merAvaya mentioned, your system-parameters customer options screen needs to have ip stations? set to "y", and you will also need some ip telephones added to your RTU. And you will need the TN799 (C-LAN) and the TN2302 (Medpro).

 

[rustytelco]

With the softagent you can load it on as many computers so the licenses issue is how many do you want to connect concurrently because you may not need to have a 1 to 1 to help with the cost of licenses.