Reboot i2002/i2004
A question that has often been asked by those working with these devices; “How can you reboot/reset an i2002/i2004 without unplugging it?” Well there is good news. You can reboot them without...
View ArticleIP Phone Administration Password
I can remember searching for hours trying to located these two “default” passwords for the i2007 and 1100E series IP phones. Hopefully this will make someones jobs a little easier. In order to access...
View ArticleSuccession Internet Telephone Type
There are only a few phone types defined within the Succession Call Server for all Internet telephones. The vast majority of Internet telephones are defined as either “i2002” or “i2004“. The 1150e is a...
View ArticleISC DHCP Server (Nortel VoIP)
I’ve received quite few messages from folks trying to setup and configure the ISC DHCP server that often comes bundled with all the major Linux distributions for Nortel Internet Telephony. Nortel has...
View ArticleNortel IP Phase 2 Phones != Leap Year
I thought I had seen it all until this morning. While my PC showed the date as Friday February 29, 2008 my Nortel 1140E phone showed the date as March 1, 2008 (actual display reads “CS1000 03/01...
View ArticleNortel Internet Telephones – Network Loops
A Tek-Tips forum member recently reported that one of his technicians improperly cabled a Nortel i2002/i2004 Internet Telephone (plugging both the ports on the back of the Internet Telephone into the...
View ArticleNortel IP Phones – UNIStim release v2.3
Nortel has just released UNIStim firmware release v2.3. There were some major enhancements made in firmware release v2.2 that enhanced DHCP provisioning for the 1100 series and i2007 phones. With...
View ArticleSuccession Signaling Server – Tips Part 1
I thought I would share some of the more useful CLI commands that be found in the Nortel Succession 4.5 Signaling Server. You can access the CLI interface by TELNETing into the Signaling Server. You...
View ArticleSuccession Signaling Server – Tips Part 2
In the first part of this two post series I gave you a small sample of some CLI diagnostic commands that are available in the Succession Signaling Server v4.5. In this post I’m going to get a little...
View ArticleDHCP Parse Error
It would seem a great many people are running into this error so I thought I would post a quick article that would help all those looking for a solution to their problem. The Nortel i2002/i2004 (any...
View ArticleWhat does "watchdog timeout" mean on Nortel wireless phones?
I’ve been working with Motorola and Nortel for over the past 9 months troubleshooting an issue that was causing the Nortel wireless phones (2210, 2211, 6120, 6140) to reset while the phone was idle. We...
View ArticleVoIP USB Adapter MagicJack
A few weeks ago a few friends approached me about Internet based VoIP solutions for their home phone. They were fed up with the $100.00+ phone bills and weren’t really excited about giving any more...
View ArticleUNIStim Firmware Release 3.1 for Nortel IP phones
We’ve been running on a very old version of firmware for the i2002, i2004, i2007, 1140e and 1150e for sometime now. We initially put a lot of time and effort assisting Nortel with troubleshooting the...
View ArticleADAC and VLAN Configurations (Part 2)
In a previous post titled ADAC and VLAN Configurations I described some issues we were having with some of our switches where VLAN memberships were mysteriously changing. We suspected ADAC and we were...
View ArticleUpgrading the i2002 Phone Firmware
We’re preparing to deploying 300+ i2002/i2004 IP telephones over the next few weeks. In preparation for this deployment we decided to upgrade the current IP phone firmware from 0604DBG to 0604DCG. The...
View ArticleSRG50 – Applying Software Patches
We have a number of Survivable Remote Gateways (SRG) across our network providing local PSTN and E-911 access for our smaller IP telephony deployments. We recently went about applying a number of...
View ArticleAsterisk with Nortel i2002 IP Phones
I was feeling under the weather this weekend and found myself confined to my bedroom and basement. With all the idle time I spent a few hours setting up Asterisk. I was looking at two goals, first...
View ArticleNortel 6100 Series WLAN Handset I2C Battery Issue
Nortel has released a technical bulletin notifying customers of an issue with the Nortel 6100 Series Wireless LAN handsets running software release 2.x (build 115.019 or earlier) when the phones are...
View ArticleVoice Pulse – IP Phone Service
With AT&T CallVantage soon to be canceled I had to go searching for an alternate solution for my home phone service. I contemplated going with Verizon’s Triple Play since I already have Verizon...
View ArticleNortel IP Softphone 2050 Release 3.4
Nortel has released the IP Softphone 2050 Release 3.4 (Build 3.4.003) for Windows PC. This maintenance release of the Nortel IP Softphone 2050 provides support for Windows 7 while addressing some known...
View ArticleAvaya IP Softphone 2050 Release 4.0
Avaya has released the IP Softphone 2050 Release 4.0 (Build 008) for the Microsoft Windows PC. The following enhancements are now available; Support for BCM 50, 450 Rebranding Node-Locked Licensing...
View ArticleSIP Software Release 3.0 for IP Deskphones
Avaya has released SIP software release 3.0 for their 1120E and 1140E IP deskphones. (There was no mention of the 1110E, 1150E, 1165E or 1200 series IP phones in any of the accompanying material)....
View ArticleSIP Software Release 3.2 for IP Deskphones
Avaya has released SIP software release 3.2 for their 1100 and 1200 series IP deskphones. This release adds support for the 1120e, 1140e, 1165e, 1220, and 1230 model IP deskphones. Here are some of the...
View ArticleAvaya 1100 Series IP Phone Upgrade to SIP
Over the past weekend I set out to setup Asterisk, an open source communication server, to test some of the issues reported in a thread over on the discussion forums. I had an Avaya 1120e and 1165e IP...
View ArticleAsterisk Now with Avaya IP Phones
There’s been a lot of discussion lately around connecting Avaya (legacy Nortel) IP phones with third-party SIP capable call servers. I’ve personally toyed with Asterisk on a number of occasions and...
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