Installation Requirements - Avaya IP Office 3.2 Installation Manual

IP Phone Installation Manual

Installation Requirements

To install an IP phone on IP Office, the following items are required:
• Extension Number and User Details:
A full listing of the planned extension number and user name details is required. The planned
extension number must be unused and is requested by the phone during installation.
• Power Supply:
Each phone requires a power supply. H.323 IP phones do not draw power from the phone switch.
A number of options exist for how power is supplied to the phones. See Power Supply Options.
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LAN Socket:
An RJ45 Ethernet LAN connection point is required for each phone.
• Category 5 Cabling:
All LAN cables and LAN cable infrastructure used with H.323 IP phones should use CAT5
cabling. Existing CAT3 cabling may be used but will be limited to 10Mbps (maximum).
• LAN Cables:
Check that an RJ45 LAN cable has been supplied with the IP phone for connection to the power
supply unit. You will also need an additional RJ45 LAN cable for connection from the power unit
to the customer LAN.
• A further RJ45 LAN cable can be used to connect the user's PC to the LAN via the IP
phone [not supported on 4601, 4602, 5601 and 5602 H.323 IP phones].
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Voice Compression Module:
The IP Office Unit must have voice compression channels available. The number of voice
compression channels limits the number of simultaneous VoIP calls:
• On Small Office Edition units, either 3 or 16 voice compression channels are pre-built into
the unit.
• On all other control units, voice compression channels are provided by fitting a Voice
Compression Module.
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DHCP Server:
The IP Office Unit can perform this role for up to 5 IP phone devices. If another DHCP server
already exists, this may be able to do DHCP for the H.323 IP phones, see Alternate DHCP
Servers. Static IP addressing can also be used, if required, but is not recommended.
• TFTP Server:
A PC running the IP Office Manager application can perform this role for up to 5 H.323 IP
phones. Otherwise one of the other TFTP Server Options must be used.
• H323 Gatekeeper:
The IP Office Unit performs this role.
• IP Office Manager PC:
A PC running Manager is required for IP Office Unit configuration changes. This PC should have
a static IP address.
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IP Telephone Software:
The software for IP phone installation is installed into the IP Office Manager program folder
during Manager installation.
• Licence Keys:
IP Office supported H.323 IP phones do not need a licence key entered on the system.
Phone Installation Guide
IP Office 3.2 15-601042 Issue 11e (27th June 2006)
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