Michael McNamara

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Aspect pitching Nortel customers

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Aspect AdvertisementOver the past few weeks you may have noticed the Aspect advertisements (see copy left) all over this blog and the discussion forums. This evening I decided to take a look at Aspect’s advertising campaign and fine out what all the excitement was about.

Aspect is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, March 9th at 11:00AM EST / 8:00AM PST hoping to discuss with current and future potential customers how the integration of the Nortel and Avaya product lines might affect them.

Aspect is a well known provider of large contact center solutions. I hope to personally listen in and see what Aspect has to say. I’d be curious if/how Aspect will also be pushing their Unified Communications solutions.

Cheers!

Nortel VPN Client Release 10.04.016 for Windows 7

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Nortel has released version 10.04.016 of their VPN client that now 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 7: Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate
  • Vista: Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate
  • XP: Home, Professional, and Tablet

There are quite a few resolved bugs in this release and quite a few known issues. I would advise everyone to read the release notes thoroughly before spending too much time troubleshooting.

You can find the actual NVC (Nortel VPN Client) on the Nortel/Avaya website and the release notes here.

Cheers!

Updated September 2, 2010
It would seem that this is a very popular post given the number of people searching for information regarding the Nortel VPN Client (NVC) and Microsoft Windows 7. I’ve uploaded the complete documentation archive containing the installation instructions and troubleshooting instructions. In addition if you are looking for the new NVC you can download it directly from Nortel here. While the client software isn’t “licensed” it is restricted by US export laws because of it’s 128-bit (and greater) encryption capabilities.
Updated Friday December 17, 2010

I’ve added links to the 32-bit and 64-bit clients in the comments below.

Updated Sunday April 10, 2011

I can no longer host the Avaya VPN client software do to the enormous bandwidth utilization on my host. In addition there are just too many people abusing my gesture. I had a single IP address from China download the client software so many times that it consumed 10GB of bandwidth.

Updated Saturday May 7, 2011

Avaya has released v10.04.109 of their VPN client software which is available in this post.

UNIStim Firmware Release 4.1 for Avaya IP Phones

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Avaya has released UNIStim 4.1 for their IP phones;

  • 0621C7D for 2007 IP Deskphone,
  • 0623C7J, 0624C7J, 0625C7J, 0627C7J and 0626C7J for 1110, 1120E, 1140E, 1150E and 1165E IP Deskphones respectively and
  • 062AC7J for 1200 Series IP Deskphones

UNIStim 4.1 adds the following features;

  • UNIStim 4.0 functionality delivered onto the 1165E IP Deskphone
  • Quality improvements to Secure Signaling using DTLS
  • Adjustable open-microphone warning tone during Zone Paging
  • UNIStim VPN client interoperability extended to include Avaya VPN Gateways

The two product bulletins covering the software release can be found here and here.

Notice any formatting differences between the two bulletins?

Cheers!

Motorola AP5131 and AP300 Hardware Revisions

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Motorola logoThere was a recent hardware change to the Motorola AP5131 and AP300 which requires a specific version of software to operate properly. In the little information I’ve been able to dig up Motorola makes reference to a “Isotope HW” change. Anyone know what the that is?

In any event if you are ordering/deploying any new AP5131 or AP300s you’ll need to be mindful of this change and ensure that you are running the appropriate software releases and/or you have applied the specific patches.

You can find the release notes concerning the AP5131 right here.

You can find the release notes concerning the AP300 right here.

Cheers!

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