[Asterisk-Users] Nortel i2004 support asterisk?

[Matt Darnell]

> > Simple Answer:  No.  the i2004 uses the proprietary nortel UNISTIM
> > protocol.  Asterisk uses SIP, IAX, SCCP, H.323, but not UNISTIM.
> >
> > Complex answer:  It depends on how much you really want it.  There has
> > been an open-sourced implementation of a UNITSTIM server done by
> > Cedric Hans.  It is located at http://www.mlkj.net/UNISTIM/voi.tar.bz2
> > (Note: I have not tried it myself yet).  With some work it could be
> > modified
> 
> Yup, it works. I took a copy of voi to our local Nortel distributor's
> office and showed their engineers how their phones can be used without
> their call server.
> 
> Honestly, I'm not sure if chan_unistim makes much sense.
> a) The phones aren't cheap - over here they cost as much as Cisco 7940's.
> b) Nortel is already going to SIP. Their latest switches all support
> SIP. I guess in the end they might produce firmware to upgrade the i2004
> to SIP.


You were able to complete calls from one phone to another?

The installation doesn't look that difficult.

It looks like it was a lot of work to reverse engineer it.

-Matt