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Chapter 1: introduction, Vpnremote phone overview – Avaya 4600 User Manual

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Issue 2 July 2006

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Chapter 1: Introduction

The Avaya VPNremote for 4600 Series IP Telephones (VPNremote Phone) is an Avaya H.323
IP Telephone with an integrated virtual private network (VPN) client and an advanced
web-enabled graphical display.

VPNremote Phone overview

The VPNremote Phone provides enterprise telephony services at a remote or small office home
office (SOHO) location through a secure VPN connection to the user’s Enterprise
Communication Manager infrastructure. The VPNremote Phone uses a high-speed connection
to the Internet and then to the VPN solution in the enterprise network.

The Avaya VPNremote for 4600 Series IP Telephones provides a significant improvement on
communications capabilities of SOHO users. The VPNremote Phone provides users with an
extension on an enterprise PBX over a secure VPN connection in a single-box solution.

For additional information regarding the 4600 Series IP Telephones, see the Avaya 4600 Series
IP Telephone, Release 2.4, LAN Administrator Guide
.

Beginning with Release 2, the VPNremote Phone is capable of implementation in Enterprise
networks with third-party devices. For more information regarding supported third-party devices,
see

VPNremote Phone features in Release 2

.

The VPNremote Phone is targeted to work with most SOHO network configurations.

Figure 1

illustrates a possible corporate network configuration with an Avaya SG203 at the headend
device with three VPNremote Phones connected through secure VPN connections.

Figure 1: VPNphone in a corporate network with an Avaya SG203 as the headend device