[Asterisk-Users] Re: Avaya phone 4610sw message waiting indicator and other settings

[Tom Lynn]

Well, I wouldn't say nobody.  I do and I've corresponded with a few people
that do. There's a page on voip-info.org dedicated to the Avaya 4602
telephone and SIP (I'm hoping I'm not the only reader of that page).  When
I've used my Avaya phone in conference (FWD CoffeeHouse), I've had people
sincerely compliment me on the quality of sound with my phone.

But......

Avaya has a few things working against it within the context of Asterisk:

* MWI just doesn't work (If you insist on trying it, get ready for your
phone to lose it's registration with * every hour or so)
* Dial strings beginning with * character appear to go nowhere with these
phones
* They're perceived as rather expen$ive
* As a company, they're simply not focused on * since it doesn't help sell
any of their other product.  They prefer selling things that drive
maintenance contract revenue and, let's face it, the phone is the commodity
appliance that connects to *.  Even within the enterprise space, very few
carry maintenance on their telephone sets anymore.

Funny anectdote:  Avaya loves showing Cisco 79xx phones with a SIP load
registered to their PBX systems with a Powered By Avaya background.  They
claim that, unlike Cisco, they will accept third party SIP clients
registering to their system.  However, they really don't provide any kind of
support for their phones used with a system other than their own.  My Mom
used to call that the Pot calling the Kettle Black.

Good phone, great sound, just no support and a bit wonky on the features.

My 2 cents.





On 6/21/06, Erick Perez <eaperezh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> nobody uses avaya phones with asterisk?
>
> On 6/20/06, Erick Perez <eaperezh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I setup my tftp to send SIP configurations (the bin files) to the
> > avaya phone. When it finished loading and rebooting it asked for the
> > extension and the password and the asterisk ip address. I had to input
> > that manually and is now working perfectly with asterisk.
> >
> > what is the format of the text files to make this phone load the
> > asterisk ip, extension number, codec used, password as well as to
> > configure message waiting indicator and maybe modify some of the
> > buttons (such as just pressing one of the available programmable
> > buttons to access voicemail). I have 10 more of these phones and i
> > want to do provisioning automatically.
> >
> > in the 46xxsettings.txt file there are no such parameters
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Erick Perez
> > Panama Sistemas
> > Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos
> > Panama, Republica de Panama
> > Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Erick Perez
> Panama Sistemas
> Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos
> Panama, Republica de Panama
> Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780
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