Licenses - Avaya IP Office H.323 Telephone Installation Manual

1.6 Licenses

The following licensing rules apply to the support of Avaya H.323 IP phones on a IP Office system. Note that B5800
Branch Gateway uses a different licensing system and different licensing rules. A B5800 Native Station license is required
for each H.323 phone on B5800. Please refer to the B5800 Branch Gateway Implementation Guide for more information.
· An Avaya IP Endpoint license is required for each Avaya H.323 IP phones. This includes all 1600, 4600, 5600,
9600, IP DECT, DECT R4, T3 IP and Spectralink.
· The system will automatically license 12 Avaya IP phones for each IP500 VCM 32 or VCM 64 card installed in
the system without requiring additional licenses to be added to the configuration.
· Additional Avaya IP phones are licensed either by the addition of Avaya IP Endpoints licenses above or the
conversion of legacy IP500 VCM Channels licenses to Channel Migration licenses (see below).
· By default licenses are consumed by each Avaya IP phone that registers with the IP Office in the order that
they register. The license is released if the phone unregisters. However, it is possible to reserve a license for
particular phones in order to ensure that they phones always obtain a license. This is done through the
Reserve Avaya IP Endpoint Licence setting of each IP extension.
· Avaya IP phones without a license will still be able to register but will be limited to making emergency calls
only (Dial Emergency short code calls). The associated user will be treated as if logged off and the phone will
display "No license available". If a license becomes available, it will be assigned to any unlicensed DECT
handsets first and then to any other unlicensed Avaya IP phone in the order that the phones registered.
· For existing IP500 systems being upgraded to IP Office Release 6, the existing VCM channels and IP500 VCM
Channels license are treated as follows:
· For each IP400 VCM card installed in the system, each VCM channel supported by the card allows support for
3 Avaya IP phones.
· For each IP500 VCM32 and IP500 VCM64 card installed in the system, the 4 unlicensed VCM channels
previously provided by each card are converted to allow unlicensed support of 12 Avaya IP phones.
· For each legacy IP500 VCM Channels license, the license are converted Channel Migration licenses
supporting 3 Avaya IP phones. See the Channel Migration license below.
· The IP500 VCM 32 and IP500 VCM 64 cards will provide their full capacity of VCM channels, ie. providing up to
32 or 64 channels depending on the card type and the codecs being used.
Licenses are issued against a unique feature key/dongle serial number. For IP500v2 control units that number is unique
to the System SD card fitted to the system. For IP500 control units that number is unique to the smart media card
inserted in the back of the control unit. To be valid, any licenses entered into the system configuration must be licenses
issued against that serial number. B5800 Branch Gateway licenses are issued against a unique PLDS Host ID.
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