[Asterisk-Users] Mitel 5220 phones

[Michael Rowley]

Hello,

Just wanted to post a success story.  I recently purchased 4 mitel 5220 
phones and have them  working with my Asterisk setup.  Was fairly 
painless once I had the right phones.  There are apparently several 
models of the 5220.  Only the 50003791 and 50003790 are actually dual 
mode, so make sure to request those models.  You can tell on the white 
mitel sticker on the back.  Mine says "MITEL 5220 IP DUAL PORT 
50003791" and works fairly well.  I don't have the paging function set 
up yet, but am able tomake incoming and outgoing calls.

Here is what I had to do to make them work.  The default is for them to 
be in Minet protocol, so you hold down the SuperKey (or Menu, depending 
on what insert you use) and apply power.  It will come up and ask if 
you want to CONFIGURE PHONE?  select YES.

Then it will Say "NETWORK PARAMETERS?" select NO

"HARDWARE CONFIG?" select NO

"PHONE MODE?"  select YES

"PROTOCOL?" select YES

"PHONE MODE: Minet"  select Change

Then select "SIP", "Accept", "Yes", it will save to NVram,

"REBOOT NOW?" select Yes

It will reboot, then download the flash file from mitel, extract it, 
reboot again, then you can push Superkey and line 1, get the ip 
address, and go to the internal web server to set up the SIP and 
network setting  you need, along with a user.

Some things I have noticed up to now...  The phone boot _much_ faster 
than the old 5055's I have.  And there appears to be less echo.

The 5220's ran me 290$ apiece.  I will update as I find out more about 
the phones.


Michael