technology, networking and IP telephony
UNIStim Firmware Release 4.0 for Nortel IP Phones
Nortel 1165e IP Phone
Nortel has released UNIStim firmware 4.0 for their IP phones;
- 0621C7A for IP Phone 2007,
- 0623C7F, 0624C7F, 0625C7F and 0627C7F for IP Phone 1110, 1120E, 1140E and 1150E respectively and
- 062AC7F for IP Phone 1210, 1220, and 1230
No UNIStim software release 4.0 is being offered for the Phase II IP Phone 2001, Phase II IP Phone 2002, and Phase II IP Phone 2004. The Nortel IP Phone 200x series (except the 2007) was manufacture discontinued as of November 29, 2009.
The enhancements available with UNIStim software release 4.0 for IP Phones include:
- UNIStim VPN Client (UVC) in the IP Phone 1100 series
- Feature and Application Licensing
- Secure Signaling using DTLS
- Secure Call Recording (SCR)
- Designed for Operability (DfO)
- Enhancements to Certificate Support
The product bulletin for the 4.0 release listed the same fixes (two of which were for the 2004 model) as the previous UNIStim 3.4 release. I’m going to guess that someone forgot to update that section of the product bulletin with some relevant information.
The big news with this release is the built in VPN client for the IP Phone 1100 series, the UNIStim VPN Client (UVC). Unfortunately this initial release doesn’t support encrypting/tunneling the traffic to/from the PC port, only the traffic to/from the Signaling Server and Voice Gateway Media Cards is encrypted with the VPN connection. The initial release is certified to work wtih Nortel VPN Router (NVR) family running software release 8.00 or greater. (NVR software release 8.00 has been qualified on the NVR 1010, 1050, 1100, 600, 1600, 17xx, 27×0, 4600 and 5000).
Please refer to the release notes and the product bulletin for complete details.
Cheers!
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about 8 months ago
Not encrypting the traffic through the PC port was deliberate to prevent a huge security hole. Take an example of a home user connecting a WiFi router into the PC port and unintentionally not using any security over the WiFi. Any drive-by/neighbour WiFi snooper would then have direct access into your corporate network if the data through the PC port was also tunneled over the VPN.
about 8 months ago
Hi Gord,
It would have been nice for Nortel to have left that decision up to the user/customer. I wonder how difficult MAC security would be to implement on the PC port?
In any event I can understand the desire to keep voice and data traffic separate and as you commented a lot of organizations already have remote access solutions in place.
Thanks for the comment!
about 5 months ago
Has anyone attempted to configure this tunnel with software release lower that 8?
about 5 months ago
Hi Steve,
I haven’t personally tried it but I’ve learned over the years that just because something isn’t supported doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t work. With that said if you did get it to work you might have to weigh the risk of going into a production environment with an unsupported configuration.
I have two 1700s and one 1740 all running 7.x software. I could probably test it out for you if you are really curious… or it might become immediately clear that it won’t work without some feature in 8.x software.
Cheers!
about 5 months ago
UNIStim 4.1 was just released. It allows interop between the UNIStim VPN Client in the 1120E/1140E/1150E/1165E and Avaya (formerly Nortel) VPN Gateway family running software release 8.01 or greater.
about 5 months ago
We are using a Contivity 1010 running version 4_85.160 and it terminates these11xx tunnels without a problem. As a matter of fact, they work great.
about 5 months ago
Hi Jephph,
Thanks for sharing that information… when I have the opportunity I hope to test the 1120e UVC wtih the Nortel VPN Router 1700 running V07_05.350.
Thanks again!
about 3 weeks ago
There are SIP versions of firmware available for the 1165E, and the rest of the 11x0E family as well. The recent SIP firmware loads have much higher levels of security than what is offered with UNIstim.