IP Office 500 Conference Phones? 1

[dailen]

Okay I just wasted a good hour looking for some conference phones only to find out that apparently they don't work with all systems. Can anybody make some suggestions as to what conference phones work with IP Office 500 and Phone Manager 8+

 

[Bas1234]

The Avaya B179 works good, you can register it to two IPO's in at the same time or on two sip extensions.

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[Telecomboy]

Manager R8 or IPO R8? If it is Manager R8, you have an R6 IPO and the B179 won't work. If you do have an R7 IP Office or higher, I just installed (2) B179's and they were really easy to install and work great. You do need VCM's and Avaya IP Endpoint License.

The Avaya B159 works on an analog port (so release doesn't matter). I haven't used that one yet, but imagine it would work well.

 

[amriddle01]

The B179s and B159s are just Konftel phones that Avaya rebrand since they bought the company, however you can still buy the Konftel branded version for far far cheaper then the Avaya stuff, even if you needed to buy the 3rd party licence for the IP version (and I'm not sure you do) it's a fair still a fair bit cheaper



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[shardian]

Haven't tried it myself...but surely it'd just be a firmware load thats the difference between the Konftel and the Avaya versions.

Might it be possible to get the Avaya image and load it into the equivalent Konftel unit so one could get away with using a normal endpoint license instead of the 3rd party license?....

Has anyone had the same thought, or even gone as far to try it?

 

[94astro]

Do the B1xx conference fully integrate with the IPOffice? Meaning you can program keys as Park keys or anything else?

 

[Bas1234]

Avaya IP-Endpoint licence is good for the B179

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[dailen]

When I open System Status is says I'm running IP Office R8. We already have two VPN IP phones setup so I know we have support for IP devices. Does it sound like the B179 would be supported?

 

[Bas1234]

Here you go.

http://www.ipofficeinfo.com/pdf/B179 Conference Phone Install and Admin Guide.pdf

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[dailen]

Thank you sir, will check out that doc!

 

[dailen]

Any idea how this will work in smaller rooms? This will be in an office, the consensus from what i've read is this seems to be designed for board rooms and larger conference rooms. I'm also interested to know if anyone has managed to get it to integrate with the advanced IP Office features. Particularly if someone parked a call then walked over to the conference phone and picked it up. I imagine I could at least doing this via shortcodes if needed.

 

[Bas1234]

Try google the next time

http://www.avaya.com/usa/resource/assets/brochures/avaya conference phones - brochure uc4732.pdf

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[dailen]

Google has a way of deceiving me I originally was pursuing the Avaya 1692 and 2033 but found several reports that it doesn't work with IP Office 500. Do you know if that's the case?

 

[dailen]

Even Avaya's website has conflicting info. I've found some avaya documents stating the Avaya 2033 is best for small and medium sized conference rooms but the brochure for the product itself says for board rooms and large conference rooms. UGH!

 

[EmuDan]

The 1692 and 2033 will NOT work. Those are for Definity/Comm. Manager systems. And I'm not too fond of the quality from the rebranded Konftel phones. I would just stick with Soundstation 2 or Soundstation IP 6000/7000's.

Dan

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