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| What is Cisco collaboration system and what is the use ? |
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| Cisco collaboration system is the new version of cisco voice products..Earlier you will have heard about Cisco Unified voice systems..now it has been changed to collaboration system with lots of adavanced features |
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| What are voice applications listed in collaboration ? |
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| Cisco Collaboration Solutions support the full range of voice, video, and data communications,including the latest advances in mobile communications and social media. Cisco Collaboration Solutions also provide an extensive set of applications and services that can be deployed either on premises or in the cloud. applications include: im and presence, contact center applications( ucce, pcce, uccx, cisco webex( for conferencing , telepresence, voice messaging, call recording etc |
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| Whats difference between Lync based video conferencing and having sseparate video conferencing devices. and what are the design to be considered for Lync based video conferencing ? |
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| For lync based video conferencing, need to plan network carefully..QOS( packet loss, jitter, delay) should be applied on all network devices..because audio and video wil traverse thru network and it will require good bandwidth |
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| What are the enhancements in 10.x ? |
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| Lots of enahncement in 10.x has been done ..For example: all applications are virtualized in 10.x..customer has to purchase UCS servers not MCS which is very cost effective..also, as per application point of view,,,cisco has introduced prime collaboration server which can management so many collaboration applications( cucm, unity connection, router) from this interface only..also, contact center applications have lots of good funtionality which BPO customer requires on daya to day basis..introduction of social miner is of very great help..in which customer can publish his status on scoial sites and can recive updates from customers online |
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| Can you let me know the video end point registration capability from 9.X and 10.X platform ? |
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| Cisco collboration system has good capability for video end points..VCS telepresence system is very good application ..it brings people together in real time without delay..it has array of HD video endpoints ..it operates with cisco ip phones with video capability as well as cisco webex |
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| Type of LIcense for users, endpoints and applications used? |
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| now cisco collaboration system has user based licensing..in cucm 9.x licensing tool was called (ELM)Enterprise license manager) and in CUCM 10.x licensing tool is called as PLM( prime license manager). Earlier before 9.x release cisco voice systems were using device based licensing…but now it has been changed to user based licensing…new licensing has CUWL professional, CUWL standard, UCL enhanced plus/enhanced, UCL basic, UCL eseential |
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| How can we estimate the dynamic load in CUCM ? |
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| hi, dyanmic load in cucm is calcualted while sizing the system..this is mainly traffic engineering part and comes in picture when we start deploying CUCM collboration system at any customer site..Traffic engineering defines the following terms..max simultaneous call, calls persecond, busy hour, BHCA, blocking factor, average call hold time, erlang, bursty traffic |
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| Is there any difference in deployment models for collaboration against earlier UC system ? |
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| There is not much difference in deployment models..it has same deployment models used earlier like CAMPUS, CENTRALIZED, and DISTRIBUTED..But in ccm collboration system, some new applications like Prime collaboration application etc has been introduced ..so, we need to take of new applications also while deploying CUCM collaboration systems |
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| How the license consumed in Collaboration 10.X ? When I add the End user or When I add the Device ? |
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| hi nisma, as discussed earlier, now from CUCM 9.x onwards licenses are consumed based on USER not device…wehenver any device is created it will consume one license but after we associate a end user to it, it will check the type of license purchased ..it may be CUWL professional, CUWL standard etc |
