Nortel has released another technical configuration guide geared towards interoperability between Cisco and Nortel equipment. The document covers a lot of information including EtherChannel to MLT interoperability, Spanning Tree interoperability, Nortel IP phones connecting to Cisco switches and Cisco IP phones connecting to Nortel switches.
It’s definitely well worth the time to review.
Cheers!
Have you set up any VPN Routers (1100,1700,2700,5000)nortel(avaya) with Cisco 2900 routers?
I love your Michael good stuff.
William
Hi William,
I have but thankfully Nortel/Avaya has a technical configuration guide that probably explains it much better than I ever could.
Nortel VPN Router Configuration with Cisco IOS Branch Office Tunnel – shared key.pdf
Good Luck!
Hi Michael Mcnamara,
Hats Off to the valuable information that you provide. I am new to this site, I have a scenario wherein I have Nortel Passport Switch installed as the Core Switch (Nortel 8006), and 95 % of the other L2 Switches are also Nortel; like Nortel 425-24T, Nortel 450-24T, Nortel 420-24T, Nortel 350-24T, and Nortel 2526T. Few Cisco Switches are installed at L2. Now after a long fight with the management, I succeeded in getting new 15 L2 Cisco Switches 2960, and core switch as Cisco 4500. Now my question is how to go about with the configuration part? Should I first go ahead and replace the Core Switch first and than the L2 switches or vice versa? Please assist me in providing information on configuration and critical things to be covered while performing the Upgradation of the network. I am planning to do this since 3 months but did not get valuable resources to study upon. I referred to the Technical Configuration Guide on your link http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2009/11/cisco-and-nortel-interoperability-technical-configuration-guide/ as well but did not get relevant information to what I am looking for. Along with the information if you provide me the downtime that will be required, it will be great. God Bless people like you!! Hoping for a quick reply from your side.
Hi Rushabh,
It sounds like your looking for some integration and configuration assistance, more than I provide here in a comment reply. I will let you know that you can bridge the VLANs between your legacy core and your new core and then eventually move the IP interfaces – assuming you want to perform a gradual/hot migration between your new network and your legacy network. Your welcome to post on the forums, where someone else might have the time to post a more detailed response to your request.
Good Luck!
hi Michael McNamara
i have nortel switches (2526T &2550T PWR) & i want all configuration commands for nortel switches as general if that is possible.
i hope to help me
Hi Tata,
You can search Avaya’s support website for a command line reference guide – I’m not sure that there is one available.
Cheers!