There is an official company now marketing the Unistim Astersik system for use with Nortel IP and digitial M/T Norstar/BCM phones and SRG.

It’s called the UCx from http://www.emetrotel.com.

Check it out, these are all former Nortel guys with 30+ years of experience for some.

Joe

You realize that the i2002/i2004 IP phones are only UNIStim capable, they don’t support SIP so you’ll need a solution that supports UNIStim and even so I would advise you to test thoroughly. It’s one thing to get it working in a lab environment, it’s a complete different thing to have it working in a production environment 24x7x365. I’d also be curious as to why you are leaving the BCM solution. The BCM is a really great solution, providing a lot of features in a very small footprint.

I’m currently too busy to take on any additional work at this time… that doesn’t mean I won’t give you advice. Why not head over to the forums and post a topic over there.

You can find information on how to access to the configuration options of the i2002/i2004 in this post.

Good Luck!

You don’t need a PoE splitter… if you have a PoE switch you should be good to go. If you don’t have a PoE switch you’ll need a PoE injector that conforms to the 802.3af standards.

Here’s a link from Amazon of a 1 port PoE injector.

Good Luck!

I just bought POE splitter to use on the Nortel i2002 Phone conneting it to POE switch but no power comes up the unit is dead I tried another unit the same story, but when I connect the external power adapter it works fine.

I need use the POE feature without using the power adapter.
The splitter I am using model # PD-PS-401/RA-NTLR V5

Please advise.

Regards,
Hani
hbizri@msn.com

You’ll need to find their MAC address (on the back of the phone) and then depending on software version the phone is running you may need to tweak the rtp_method.

unistim.conf

[phone1]                     ; name of the device
device=001765ffe0fc         ; mac address of the phone
rtp_port=10000              ; RTP port used by the phone, default = 10000. RTCP = rtp_port+1
rtp_method=3                ; If you don't have sound, you can try 1, 2 or 3, default = 0
status_method=0             ; If you don't see status text, try 1, default = 0
titledefault=Asterisk       ; default = "TimeZone (your time zone)". 12 characters max
maintext0="Asterisk PBX"  ; default = "Welcome", 24 characters max
;maintext1="a custom text"   ; default = the name of the device, 24 characters max
;maintext2="(main page)"     ; default = the public IP of the phone, 24 characters max
;dateformat=1                ; 0 = month/day, 1 (default) = day/month
;timeformat=1                ; 0 = 0:00am ; 1 (default) = 0h00, 2 = 0:00
;contrast=8                  ; define the contrast of the LCD. From 0 to 15. Default = 8
;country=us                  ; country (ccTLD) for dial tone frequency. See README, default = us
;ringvolume=2                ; ring volume : 0,1,2,3, can be overrided by Dial(), default = 2
ringstyle=3                 ; ring style : 0 to 7, can be overrided by Dial(), default = 3
callhistory=1               ; 0 = disable, 1 = enable call history, default = 1
callerid="Customer Support" <555-234-5678>
context=michael             ; context, default="default"
mailbox=2000                ; Specify the mailbox number. Used by Message Waiting Indication
;linelabel="Support"         ; Softkey label for the next line=> entry, 9 char max.
;extension=line              ; Add an extension into the dialplan. Only valid in context specified previously.
                             ; none=don't add (default), ask=prompt user, line=use the line number
line => 100                 ; Only one line by device is currently supported.
                             ; Beware ! only bookmark and softkey entries are allowed after line=>
;bookmark=Hans C.@123        ; Use a softkey to dial 123. Name : 9 char max
;bookmark=Mailbox@011@54     ; 54 shows a mailbox icon. See #define FAV_ICON_ for other values (32 to 63)
bookmark=Test@*@USTM/phone2  ; Display an icon if violet is connected (dynamic), only for unistim device
;bookmark=4@Pager@54321@51   ; Display a pager icon and dial 54321 when softkey 4 is pressed

[phone2]                     ; name of the device
device=0018b0342c34         ; mac address of the phone
rtp_port=10000              ; RTP port used by the phone, default = 10000. RTCP = rtp_port+1
rtp_method=3                ; If you don't have sound, you can try 1, 2 or 3, default = 0
status_method=0             ; If you don't see status text, try 1, default = 0
titledefault=Asterisk       ; default = "TimeZone (your time zone)". 12 characters max
maintext0="Asterisk PBX"  ; default = "Welcome", 24 characters max
;maintext1="a custom text"   ; default = the name of the device, 24 characters max
;maintext2="(main page)"     ; default = the public IP of the phone, 24 characters max
;dateformat=1                ; 0 = month/day, 1 (default) = day/month
;timeformat=1                ; 0 = 0:00am ; 1 (default) = 0h00, 2 = 0:00
;contrast=8                  ; define the contrast of the LCD. From 0 to 15. Default = 8
;country=us                  ; country (ccTLD) for dial tone frequency. See README, default = us
;ringvolume=2                ; ring volume : 0,1,2,3, can be overrided by Dial(), default = 2
ringstyle=3                 ; ring style : 0 to 7, can be overrided by Dial(), default = 3
callhistory=1               ; 0 = disable, 1 = enable call history, default = 1
callerid="Customer Support" <555-234-5678>
context=michael             ; context, default="default"
mailbox=2001                ; Specify the mailbox number. Used by Message Waiting Indication
;linelabel="Support"         ; Softkey label for the next line=> entry, 9 char max.
;extension=line               ; Add an extension into the dialplan. Only valid in context specified previously.
                             ; none=don't add (default), ask=prompt user, line=use the line number
line => 101                 ; Only one line by device is currently supported.
                             ; Beware ! only bookmark and softkey entries are allowed after line=>
;bookmark=Hans C.@123        ; Use a softkey to dial 123. Name : 9 char max
;bookmark=Mailbox@011@54     ; 54 shows a mailbox icon. See #define FAV_ICON_ for other values (32 to 63)
bookmark=Test@*@USTM/phone1  ; Display an icon if violet is connected (dynamic), only for unistim device
;bookmark=4@Pager@54321@51   ; Display a pager icon and dial 54321 when softkey 4 is pressed

I then added the following lines in the extensions.conf file;

exten => 100,1,Dial(USTM/100@phone1)
exten => 101,1,Dial(USTM/101@phone2)

It’s not to complicated after you spend some time with it.

Good Luck!

The only real changes beyond just building and installing the software was configuring the extensions in the extensions.conf file and then provision the IP phones in the unistim.conf file. I’ll see if I can power back up that VM and copy down the files to post here.

One note, I didn’t realize for quite some time that I had to go off-hook on the i2002, then dial the number and then select the appropriate line key before the phone would actually dial. It might have been my configuration, I’m not sure but going off-hook didn’t provide dialtone until I selected a line.

Thanks for the feedback!

I am on CentOS 5.2 like you, and used hte AsteriskNOW 1.6Beta for my base intstall of everything.

Can I get a DETAILED instruction on how you got the nortels to work? Heck I would even pay you fo rhte consult to help me.. I truely like the nortel phones and it would save me about $400 if I can re-use the 3 IP phones I have.

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PS: I am not a ‘Phone Guy’ so this is all new to me, I am a MCSE/T type.