[cisco-voip] unity connection 7 questions

Wed Sep 10 14:44:45 EDT 2008

Thanks again Christopher. This looks good. It's interesting to see how they 
might give you free VPIM across platforms but charge you for inter platform. 
We'll have to evaluate if VPIM is worth it though.

I'm also considering the clustering option. Like I said, we have two 
seperate servers right now for two fairly distinct user groups, i.e. student 
vs. staff. By buying the high availability software we could combine the two 
and cluster them.

Lelio
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From: "Christopher M. Bomba" <cbomba at s4nets.com>
To: <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Cc: <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:26 AM
Subject: RE: unity connection 7 questions

If you are going with all Unity Connections you can use digital networking 
and stuff should just work.  You will have to join them to each other's 
"connection network".

I know VPIM between Unity - Unity Connection and Unity - CUE is free but 
between UC and UC there is probably a license cost.  List price of VPIM is 
$8,500 and you would need at least two of those.  When you have VPIM 
licensed, you can create as many VPIM subscribers as you like.

Chris

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-----Original Message-----
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:14:45 -0400
From: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] unity connection 7 questions
To: <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
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Thanks Christopher....I've added some additional comments for clarification.
  1.. OK - I guess we don't have internet subscribers.
  2.. I read that document after I posted and saw that page and the 
following paragraph. Let's hope this means I can enable a call handler 
greeting and allow users to enter an extension that is not associate with a 
user and have them transferred to that number. While it seems like that's 
what it means, I've been surprised before. I'm hoping it's not the first 
step and it requires additional keystrokes from the user. I want a user to 
hear a call handler greeting and enter the extension of the coffee room the 
same way they would enter a regular extension.
    a.. To Configure an Individual Greeting to Allow System Transfers
    Step 1 In Cisco Unity Connection Administration, go to the Greetings 
page for the applicable user, user template, call handler, or call handler 
template.
    Step 2 Select the applicable greeting.
    Step 3 On the Edit Greeting page, check the Allow Transfers to Numbers 
Not Associated with Users or Call Handlers check box.
    Step 4 Click Save.

  3.. We are looking at deploying multiple Unity Connection servers. We 
currently have three Unity servers, we would likely migrate them all to 
Unity Connection. I'm hoping digital network would allow two seperate unity 
connection servers to communicate with each other. One server is analog 
integration, so we might leave that as is and get VPIM networking working 
with that one.

  4.. It might be of administrative benefit to do this rather than having to 
remember which call handlers to replicate. Is there a cost to VPIM 
subscribers? We have quite a number of leftover voicemail subscribers - can 
I just use one of these licences or do I have to buy VPIM licences?

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From: "Christopher M. Bomba" <cbomba at s4nets.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:57 AM
Subject: RE: unity connection 7 questions

A. I don't see anywhere to create an internet subscriber

B. Depending on how you set up permissions and transfer rules you can do 
this:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/7x/administration/guide/7xcucsag115.html

C. Connection supports VPIM and Digital Networking, no AMIS.  I think 
Digital Networking only works between two UC clusters.  So if you have Unity 
and you want to migrate to Unity Connection you would need to use VPIM. 
Then if that was the case you would have to create those subscribers as VPIM 
subscribers so they could be reference between the boxes.

D.  If you wanted to have a call handler on one box to reference subscribers 
on another you would again have to create those subscribers as VPIM 
subscribers.

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Email - chris at s4nets.com
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-----Original Message-----
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 23:16:51 -0400
From: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
Subject: [cisco-voip] unity connection 7 questions
To: <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
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now that unity connection 7.0(1) is out of the bag (well, documentation at 
least)...i'm hoping anyone out there who was involved in the early field 
trials (or Cisco staff in the know) might be able to answer a few questions:
  a.. does it have Internet Subscribers?
  b.. does it have integrated system transfer, that is, will it 
automatically forward a call to an extension that isn't a user or call 
handler?
  c.. does it offer "networking" like Unity does? we have two voicemail 
servers we would like networked similar to what they have now?
  d.. if so, are call handlers exported across this network? this is why we 
chose internet subscribers, they were replicated in the directory

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