[cisco-voip] srst bundle vs cme bundle?

[Hassan Salama]

what am trying to say is that the phone itself always keeps a copy of the firmware, and download only if there a mismatch when connected to CCM/CME

SRST would not totally replace CCM/CME as it have a very limited fuunctionality (you can refer to product guide for more details) and generally it is used as a survivable solution in case of WAN failure.

CME have a subset of the feature and functionality of the CCM.

Product :                          Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express    
Number of Users :             Up to 240, depending on selection of Cisco Integrated Services Router
Distributed or Centralized : Centralized for small businesses or distributed in branch offices
Redundancy :                   Yes
Server or Router Based :    Router 

Product :                          Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site Telephony
Number of Users :             Up to 720, depending on selection of Cisco Integrated Services Router
Distributed or Centralized : Distributed in branch offices
Redundancy :                   Yes
Server or Router Based :    Router 


for more detail you can refer to url here after "Compare Products and Solutions" or refer to cisco product guides
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/products_category_buyers_guide.html


----- Original Message ----
From: Syed Khalid Ali <khalid_khursheed at hotmail.com>
To: Hassan Salama <hsalama_us at yahoo.com>; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 2:26:31 PM
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] srst bundle vs cme bundle?


Hasan,

I agree that the firmware is downloaded into the phone but it should be on the flash memory for the tftp server to load. In my case there are no files on the flash (the router is shipped with SRST bundled) for ip phones even though when I issue the "tftp-server flash:", it is working and phones get registered with cme.

And again what is the difference b/w SRST bundle and CCME bundle.


Regards,
Syed Khalid Ali 

> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 04:49:55 -0700
> From: hsalama_us at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] srst bundle vs cme bundle?
> To: khalid_khursheed at hotmail.com
>
> Hi,
>
> My understanding is that the firmware get downloaded into the phone when it is connected to CCM (when firmware mismatch -up/down grade), and in case of WAN failure (SRST mode) it keeps using the last firmware loaded (even if phone restarted several times)
>
> for Q1 : yes SRST is different from CCME , as CCME is a smaller version of CCM.
> for Q2 : phone in SRST mode uses the latest loaded firmware (as my understanding).
>
> Regards,
> HS
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Syed Khalid Ali 
> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 9:53:36 AM
> Subject: [cisco-voip] srst bundle vs cme bundle?
>
>
> hi,
>
> Just bought a 2821 with SRST 3.3 bundle for one of the clients. i'm using it as CCME configured 2 7912 ip phones as well. But for my surprise there are no phone firmware file on the flash and phones are still working. now my question is:
>
> 1- Is SRST bundle different from CCME bundle?
> 2- If yes, there should be firmware file for ip phones for the tftp server to load?
>
> best regards,
>
> syed khalid ali
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