[cisco-voip] CUCM 7

Thu Dec 4 11:22:17 EST 2008

After talking with our account manager, we decided UCSS would be more expensive than purchasing the upgrade in a couple years, but you bring up a good point about the N-1 thing.  Cisco seems to be making more changes to maintenance, contracts, etc., which are costing us more money.  Fortunately our current upgrade contract does not expire until January, which is why I am ordering every new piece of software that Cisco will let me.

Regarding the 6.1 vs. 7.0, although I am sure that some work has been done, and its not just a rename, my concern is from a stability point of view.  Is 7.0  going to be just as stable as 6.1 overall?

>>> "Sandy Lee" <Sandy.Lee at sit.ulaval.ca> 12/4/2008 8:36 AM >>>
Hi,

Yes you can upgrade from 4.x to 7.x, product number is CCX-70-UPG.

Regards.

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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Voice Noob
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:29 AM
To: Lelio Fulgenzi
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net; Michael Back
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM 7

I think this is where they are headed. I had an SE tell me they were going this way so that it would cost more not to have UCSS. ALso are you sure you can purchase an upgrade from 4.x to 7.X just as an example? 

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

I really think Cisco shot themselves (and us) in the foot by demising SASU and creating UCSS. If it was still SASU, we would buy SASU every year. But now, we're gonna simply buy the upgrade when necessary. As long as it's not every two years, we're financially better off. Granted we won't get all the bells and whistles, but we'll still have a phone system. I'm just waiting for them to implement an N-1 upgrade limit which says you can only upgrade to version 8 if you are on v7. Then we're really screwed. ;) 

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Back" <Michael.Back at nisd.net>
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 

Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:50:06 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM 7

Thanks for the input.  Upgrading beyond 7 is not an issue for us due to
financial reasons.  We have the 6.1 and 7 software now; we are just
waiting on some new hardware and the time to put it all together.  I was
really hoping that someone else would have already installed 7, but I
guess it is still fairly new.

>>> "Carter, Bill" <bcarter at sentinel.com> 12/3/2008 11:00 PM >>>
I would expect a CM version upgrade at least every 18 months. That
would mean CM 8.0 in Spring/Summer 2010.

From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net 
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lelio
Fulgenzi
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:50 PM
To: Michael Back
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM 7

I may have mentioned it on the list a while back. I came to this
conclusion for the simple fact that the release date of v7 was only 6 to
8 months after the release of v6 or something like that. We were told
that originally this would be 12 months and then that moved to 18
months. How could they have done it in 8?

So, honestly, I think it's somewhere in the middle. ;)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Back" <Michael.Back at nisd.net>
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 4:14:51 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
Eastern
Subject: [cisco-voip] CUCM 7

I read somewhere (maybe here) that CUCM 7 is pretty much the same as
6.1, but with a name change to be more consistent with the other
products.  Does anyone know if this is true?  The reason I am asking
is
because we are going to upgrade end of first quarter next year, and I
am
trying to decide if we will go with 6.1 or 7.  If I go with 7 I won't
have to worry about a major upgrade for another 3 to 5 years, only
minor
upgrades.  Has anyone had any direct experience with 7?  Please share
any useful information you may have.  Thanks.

Mike Back
VoIP Systems Administrator
Northside ISD
michael.back at nisd.net 
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