Chapter 2: Administration Overview and Requirements

9600 Series IP Telephones

All 9600 Series IP Telephones currently support the H.323 signaling protocol. The 9620 and 9630 can alternately be configured to support Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), as covered in the Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition for 9600 Series SIP IP Telephones Administrator Guide (Document Number 16-601944). This document covers only 9600 Series IP Telephones supporting H.323.

The H.323 standard provides for real time audio, video, and data communications transmission over a packet network. An H.323 telephone protocol stack comprises several protocols:

• H.225 for registration, admission, status (RAS), and call signaling,
• H.245 for control signaling,
• Real Time Transfer Protocol (RTP) and Secure Real Time Transfer Protocol (SRTP)
• Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP) and Secure Real Time Control Protocol (SRTCP)

The parameters under which the 9600 Series IP Telephones need to operate are summarized as follows:

• Telephone Administration on the Avaya Media Server, as covered in
  Chapter 4: Communication Manager Administration.
• IP Address management for the telephone, as covered in DHCP and File Servers for dynamic addressing. For static addressing, see the Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition for 9600 Series IP Telephones Installation and Maintenance Guide.
• Tagging Control and VLAN administration for the telephone, if appropriate, as covered in Chapter 7: Administering Telephone Options.
• Quality of Service (QoS) administration for the telephone, if appropriate. QoS is covered in QoS and QoS.
• Protocol administration, for example, Simple Network Management Control (SNMP) and Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP).
• Interface administration for the telephone, as appropriate. Administer the telephone to LAN interface using the PHY1 parameter described in Chapter 3: Network Requirements. Administer the telephone to PC interface using the PHY2 parameter described in “Interface Control” in the Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition for 9600 Series IP Telephones Installation and Maintenance Guide.
• Application-specific telephone administration, if appropriate, as described in Chapter 8: Administering Applications and Options. An example of application-specific data is Web-specific information required for this optional application.

Table 1 indicates that you can administer system parameters in a variety of ways and use a variety of delivery mechanisms like:

• Maintaining the information on the call server.
• Manually entering the information by means of the telephone dialpad.
• Administering the DHCP server.
• Editing the configuration file on the applicable HTTP or HTTPS file server.
• User modification of certain parameters, when given administrative permission to do so.

NOTE: Not all parameters can be administered on all delivery mechanisms.

General information about administering DHCP servers is covered in DHCP and File Servers, and more specifically, DHCP Server Administration. General information about administering HTTP servers is covered in DHCP and File Servers, and more specifically, HTTP Generic Setup. Once you are familiar with that material, you can administer telephone options as described in Chapter 7: Administering Telephone Options.