Tech Tip: Deploying Mitel IP Phones in a VLAN/DHCP Environment

I recently burned way too much time implementing a Mitel IP phone system for a customer, and it should not have been this difficult. Doing it the "easy" way - giving each phone a static IP on the same VLAN as the rest of the network - is just sloppy, especially considering that the phones are happy to play well on a more properly segregated network.

Our local support person was a great and helpful guy, but he simply didn't have this information, and my impression was that we were expected to go to Mitel Professional Services for network consulting (presumably for a fee).

Um, no.

So, I wrote this paper to help the next guy accomplish what we did, and maybe the general direction will be useful for other kinds of IP phones: feedback and related experiences are welcome.

May 17, 2012 at 4:07 AM