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SIP Software Release 4.1 Service Pack for IP Deskphones

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July 9, 2011
by Michael McNamara in ,

Avaya has released SIP software release 4.1 Service Pack (4.01.15) for their 1100 and 1200 series IP deskphones. I’ll refer you to the release notes for the 4.1 Service Pack software release for the all the details. Let me also reference the 4.1 (4.01.13) software release notes since I never announced it here.

This release adds support for the following two new features;

‘More’ Feature Key (IP Office)

SIP Software Release 4.1 for 11xx/12xx IP Deskphones introduced a mechanism for IP Office to configure extra features using the soft keys on the deskphone. Soft keys are the 4 buttons located below the display screen on the phone. Soft key button labels are displayed on the phone display right above the physical buttons, with each label corresponds to the physical button. SIP Software Release 4.1 Service Pack for 11xx/12xx IP Deskphones extends this feature by the addition of a ‘More’ key as the right-most button, indicating more selections are available.

Configurable LLDP Timeout

SIP Software Release 4.1 for 11xx/12xx IP Deskphones provides a mechanism to customize the time to wait for LLDP data from the network.

On reset/power-up, the Deskphone will try to obtain LLDP data (i.e. the VLAN ID) only once at startup. If no response is received from the network switch the deskphone will continue to boot. After that the phone will not retry to get LLDP data until the next reboot. In some cases, the network switch may take too much time to start up. In this case, if the switch applies power to its ports (POE) before the switch is ready to accept network packets from devices (the deskphone) connected to the switch, the LLDP negotiation may timeout before the switch is ready to respond.

Prior to SIP Software Release 4.1 Service Pack, following a reboot (and the ENABLE_LLDP flag is set), the deskphone would wait for LLDP data from switch for up to 30 seconds. If no data was received, the deskphone starts up using the previous data stored in EEPROM.

With SIP Software Release 4.1 Service Pack, a new provisioning parameter has been added to the device configuration file to specify the time to wait for LLDP data from the network switch:

LLDP_WAITING_TIME

Minimum value is 30 seconds

Maximum value is 300 seconds (5 minutes).

I haven’t personally seen the issue that Avaya is attempting to resolve regarding the LLDP timer when connecting the 1100 or 1200 series IP phones to the Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 5520. I have observed that the switch appears to delay enabling PoE on the ports until it’s far enough along through the boot-up process.

Cheers!

UNIStim Firmware Release 5.1 for IP Deskphones

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July 9, 2011
by Michael McNamara in ,

Avaya has released UNIStim firmware 5.1 for their IP deskphones;

  • 0621C8D for the 2007 IP deskphone
  • 0623C8D, 0624C8D, 0625C8D, 0627C8D, 0626C8D for the 1110, 1120E, 1140E, 1150E and 1165E IP deskphones
  • 062AC8D for the 1200 series IP deskphones

This release of firmware adds support for the following features;

  • Support for a Wireless Markup Language (WML) browser on the 2007 IP Deskphone.

UNIStim software release 5.1 delivers quality improvements for all IP Deskphones including software fixes for over one hundred work items, and resolution of seven customer reported cases. A previously reported Product Advisement related to the 1165E IP Deskphone locking up if invalid UserID and password for WML authentication are provided has been addressed in this UNIStim 5.1 software release.

UNIStim Software Release 5.1 is supported on the Avaya 2007, 1110, 1120E, 1140E, 1150E, 1165E, 1210, 1220, and 1230 IP Deskphones only. For details on specific hardware vintages which are supported, please refer to the ReadMe file.

UNIStim Software Release 5.1 is compatible with the following Call Servers:

  •     Avaya CS 1000 Release 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, 7.5
  •     Avaya SRG 50 Release 6.0
  •     Avaya SRG 200/400 Release 1.5
  •     Avaya CS 2100
  •     Avaya BCM 50/450 Release 6.0 (refer to ReadMe for additional information)
  •     Avaya BCM 200/400 Release 4.0 (refer to ReadMe for additioanl information)
  •     Avaya CS 2100 CICM Release 10.1 MR2, Release 11 MR2

Product Advisement for customers who previously upgraded to UNIStim 5.0 using the workaround related to Zero Touch Provisioning:

For customers who previously upgraded to UNIStim 5.0 and used the recommended workaround detailed in the UNIStim 5.0 Readme Product Bulletin, related to pre-configured REG entries, this workaround needs to be removed to successfully upgrade to UNIStim 5.1. That is, customers who have pre-configured REG entries, (which includes the MAC address, the TN, and Node) within the provisioning file to enable Zero Touch for the IP Deskphones, were previously advised of a problem that could occur related to parsing of the REG entry which prevented the IP Deskphones from coming up as expected. The recommended workaround for customers upgrading to UNIStim 5.0 was to add a comma before the semi-colon of the REG entry within the provisioning file. As noted in the UNIStim 5.0 Readme Product Bulletin, this issue is now fully addressed in this UNIStim 5.1 software maintenance release, and customers who applied the workaround will need to remove the comma to successfully upgrade to this UNIStim 5.1 software release.

You should refer to the release notes for all the details.

Cheers!

Avaya VPN Client Release 10.05.012 for Windows 7

July 7, 2011
by Michael McNamara in ,

Avaya has released version 10.05.012 of their VPN client that supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. This single client supports the following operating systems (in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions);

  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7

This release appears to be primarily geared around the Avaya re-branding effort so I wouldn’t advise that you rush out and upgrade right away.

“Nortel VPN Client” is been rebranded as “Avaya VPN Client”
With the transition from Nortel to Avaya, the product “Nortel VPN Client” has been renamed as “Avaya VPN Client”. Some preliminary rebranding was done in earlier releases. In this release, remaining components have been completed, including installer, install path, driver names and etc.

Here are the few “resolved” issues;

  • wi00883754 Unsupported Change/Repair options appear in Programs and Features
  • wi00872243 Long message gets trimmed in the app launch wait dialog.
  • wi00877055 During upgrade install, previously installed PLAP component may fail to show up.

You should refer to the release notes for all the details.

AVC32-10.05.012.exe (MD5SUM HASH – e0d516cdf9a813df3243f59612f81340)

AVC64-10.05.012.exe (MD5SUM HASH – 57f490235bdd0dce0226e374d871f908)

Cheers!
Update: September 20, 2011

Avaya has release v10.05.100 which can be found here, I’m going to close comments on this post.

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