[cisco-voip] Benefits of CM 6 for Mgmt and End users?

[Scott Voll]

>From a management stand point...... redundant partitions.  if upgrade goes
bad..... revert back to stable version.  upgrade the standby partitions on
all CM's then when your ready. reboot to new partition.  Upgrades that took
20 minutes per server time however many servers you have is now down to a 5
minute reboot per server.  That's enough for me.

4.1 does not support BLF where as 5.x and 6.x does.

4.1 is EOL so your going to have to upgrade one way or another.  4.3?

CIPTUG this year (Nov) there was a lot of talk and if it was not a new
install most people were on 4.1.  new installs were mostly 5.1.

6.1 is supposed to be out January.  Most all CIPTUG people were waiting for
it.

I personally am waiting for 6.1 to come out then will look at the upgrade
process.   By this summer I plan on being upgraded to 6.1.

Just my two cents

Scott

On Dec 4, 2007 8:34 PM, Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com> wrote:

> 4.1(3) is EOL.
>
> CCM6 has integrated mobility (single number reach), intercom, easier
> LDAP integration, and isn't EOL....
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Dec 4, 2007 9:04 PM, d4rk f1br <d4rkf1ber at gmail.com> wrote:
> > OK, what are some of the key benefits or pitches for upgrading to
> > CallManager 6 from 4.1(3) ?
> >
> > New year new budgets coming up.... I myself am not convinced entirely
> yet of
> > what benefits CallManager 6 offers to the end users and thus not sure
> myself
> > if its really worth it.
> >
> > Alot of the features I see in the 6.x line of things comes from other
> > services such as Presence server and Contact Center Express.
> >
> > We will not be upgrading phone hardware, we use MS Communicator
> throughout
> > so I don't see us moving from that to the Cisco client.
> >
> > I just don't know, I want to be running the latest from a support and
> > security stand point and if there really were some great new features
> and
> > functions that would change things for end users then great I would be
> all
> > over it.
> >
> > I am sure I am not the only one but when I think about moving to say 6.xI
> > think back to when we first moved to Callmanager and VoIP and all the
> > promises of this and that and how cool the phones were and the xml
> services
> > and blah blah.  Ultimately 5+ years later the phones are just phones
> still,
> > and to the end users they don't really see much in the way of added
> benefits
> > I suspect.
> >
> > Kinda hard to sell using the phone as anything but a phone to people who
> sit
> > at a computer most of the day, so obviously people will gravitate to
> using
> > the PC over a phone for the "extras".
> >
> > Love to hear others thoughts about all of this and what your plans on
> for
> > upgrading in the future?
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