[cisco-voip] Fw: End-of-Sale Announcement for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 5.0

[Justin Steinberg]

I think we will see this new support model for all IP-PBX vendors.
With IP-PBXes running on commodity hardware, the software development
isn't constrained to working with specific hardware PBXes.   With
pbxes running on server class hardware, the development and lifecycle
of the IP-PBX is beginning to look like the lifecycle used for other
IT systems.  Windows for example, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, etc were
all 3-5 years apart.

With IP, people will be taking on projects to upgrade their PBX just
like their data servers and domain.

That being said, I agree it is a big change that no one is talking
about when it comes to going voip.


On Jan 10, 2008 2:22 PM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> wrote:
>
>  Basically correct.
>
>  In CM3.x and 4.x there were ES and SR.  You had to get ES through TAC case
> and you could download SR from Cisco.com
>
>  In CM5.x and 6.x there are only ES.  Most ES you have to get through TAC.
> However, once every 4 weeks we post the 4 week old 'stable' ES for each
> train here:
>  http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/CUCM-ES5X
>  http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/CUCM-ES6X
>
>  The posting of 5.x and 6.x es replaces the SR procedure from 4.x
>
>
>  These are the delivery mechanisms.  However, this does not answer the
> question of "when does cisco stop providing bug fixes for CM5.1".
>
>  /Wes
>
>
>  Ed Leatherman wrote:
>
> I seem to recall reading somewhere (probably on this list) that with the new
> CCM releases, the ES releases coorelate more to the service releases in
> previous versions as far as amount of testing etc.. is that correct?
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2008 11:41 AM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Currently CM5.1(4) has been canceled so there will likely not be any
> additional CM 5.1 releases.  CM5.1(3) engineering specials are still being
> produced for now.  In fact there is currently no process to notify customers
> when ES are no longer being produced.  You will simply call into TAC one day
> for a fix and get either 'no' or 'upgrade to the next major version'.
> Because the PM's have not heard demand for this from you, our customers,
> they do not believe it to be a problem.
> >
> > /Wes
> >
>
>  --
>  Ed Leatherman
>  Senior Voice Engineer
>  West Virginia University
>  Telecommunications and Network Operations ________________________________
>
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