VPN and remote phones

andi · Post by **andi** » 12 Apr 2007 07:43

Hi there

A workmate of me just asked me if I ever heard of an VPN enabled iptouch phone that only needs an active internet connection to connect through a VPN tunnel into our corporate network and then accesses our OXE system.

He said an Alcatel guy told him that on a meeting a few months ago, but in the internet or directly at alcatel we couldnt get and information about these features. So I told here would be the right place to ask for this features

So what the Alcatel guy told him was that Alcatel has phones with an integrated VPN client that builds up a tunnel through the internet and so lets the phone connect to our callservers.

I dont know if Alcatel really offers somthing like described above, but I think you guys know such things better than I do

Thanks for your help!

regards
Andi

cavagnaro · Post by **cavagnaro** » 12 Apr 2007 11:53

Never heard of such ip touch. Not even 4068 v2. Maybe a new product coming soon? But will really Alcatel deploy such feature?

andi · Post by **andi** » 16 Apr 2007 06:44

Damn! That would have been to nice

The really stupid thing is that we have no contact data or even a name from the alcatel guy that told us about this feature.

Thanks for your help anyway.

henk1964 · Post by **henk1964** » 17 Apr 2007 18:14

I know of Avaya and Mitel phones with build in VPN but will ask for the Alcatel version ;-)) Would be REALY nice

kong · Post by **kong** » 23 Apr 2007 01:05

Hello,

I don't think NOE IP touch has the VPN connection with call server. But it has the AVA(Automatic VLAN Acquisition) feature. AVA is the preferred solution for assigning a VLAN (802.1Q) to a terminal connected to a VLAN-enabled network.
Probably the IP touch will have the VPN connection in the future release.