[cisco-voip] Is this Unity's death knell?

[Scott Voll]

there has been some issues with scalability with exchange 2007 that has come
to my attention that I'm a little concerned about.  How many exchange
servers to I need for 32 port and 800 VM boxes?

Scott


On 9/12/07, Matthew Saskin <matt at saskin.net> wrote:
>
> However Unity doesn't provide any of the additional features that
> Outlook Voice Access provides.
>
> While I'm torn about features, various individuals (mostly sales,
> management, etc.) that we've exposed our lab CM/Exch 2007 setup to
> instantly fell in love with the voice interaction to their calendar and
> inboxes.
>
> -matt
>
> K S wrote:
> > Ahhh the "Free" Unified Messaging from MS.  Free is a
> > bundled price....something else in that bundle could
> > also be called free. Check out the Cisco Workspace
> > License.....lots of "free" there as well.
> >
> > Free from MS is a Software license that requires MS
> > users to buy software support on for for the rest of
> > it's natural life....or it becomes illegal.
> >
> > Free is calling MS tech support when the Intel Gateway
> > they recommend won't talk to your NEC/Nortel?Avaya
> > PBX...thats a trip in itself.
> >
> > T.38 IS supported with CUCM in H.323 mode so that
> > shouldn't be an issue.
> >
> > The new versions of Unity (4.2, 5.0) offer a ton of
> > enhancements that MS doesn't have. MWI for starters
> > (there is 3rd party for MS that charges per user plus
> > the application). Also Unity users don't have to
> > change their TUI...they can use what they are already
> > using with the custom TUI settings in Unity so there
> > is no re-learning by the user.
> >
> > Cisco's encryption of messages means security that MS
> > doesn't have. Imagine having someone forward an
> > internal message that had critical business info on it
> > to someone off the network. Cisco Unity prevents that.
> >
> > Cisco has failover for Unity that is at least as
> > reliable as the MS clustering....probably more so.
> >
> > Speech Rec on Unity is in its first phase in the 5.0
> > product and will be getting better over the next 3
> > months from what I hear.
> >
> > Again, there are many enhancements to Unity that make
> > "free" not so attractive.
> >
> > You've got to look at the overall offer and how it
> > impacts the business.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Jake Doe <jd80301 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Perhaps not through Play on Phone (since it's just
> >> an
> >> embedded Windows Media Player).  However, if you use
> >> the TUI or VUI, then you have the ability to slow
> >> down
> >> or speed up the message.  See the Outlook Voice
> >> Access
> >> (OVA) Quick Reference Guide for those options:
> >>
> >>
> > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397228.aspx
> >> --- Robert Kulagowski <bob at smalltime.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Jake Doe wrote:
> >>>> Yes, Exchange 2007 UM allows you to play your
> >>> voice
> >>>> mail through the phone as well.  However, the
> >> Play
> >>> on
> >>>> Phone feature is only available with Outlook
> >> 2007
> >>> or
> >>>> Outlook Web Access 2007 (e.g. no plug-in
> >>> required).
> >>>> Otherwise, the voice mail is just another
> >> WMA/WAV
> >>> file
> >>>> attachment in older versions of Outlook.
> >>>  From what I recall at Interop, they don't have a
> >>> pitch-adjusted tempo
> >>> feature during playback, so you can't slow down
> >> the
> >>> audio to catch a
> >>> phone number which may have been spoken too
> >> quickly
> >>> to make out.
> >>>
> >>> ObPetPeeve:  People who delight in giving you a
> >>> phone number in a
> >>> voicemail as quickly as possible as some sort of
> >>> personal contest.
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