[cisco-voip] Microsoft Voicemail vs Unity Voicemail

Wed Feb 18 17:04:24 EST 2009

I was thinking aboout that too.

Scott

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

>  I've always wondered how this turned out....
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/091206-von-sam-houston.html
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> To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>, "Tim Reimers" <
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>  Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:01:49 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
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> Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Microsoft Voicemail vs Unity Voicemail
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>  Asterisk's biggest issue with corporate America is supportability.  I
> agree that some SMBs (focus on 'S') are moving that route because of
> 'packaged' solutions, but I have yet to see a medium to large company give
> it more than a cursory glance.  Once they see the support model (or lack
> thereof), they continue looking.
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Lelio Fulgenzi
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:27 PM
> *To:* Tim Reimers
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> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Microsoft Voicemail vs Unity Voicemail
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> Asterisk is another one they will have to worry about. More in the small
> business sector in the short/med term, but once they get scaling and high
> availability sorted out, it will be a challenger. And yes, as someone
> mentioned, it needs to be more user friendly. I think what you will find is
> that people will "sell" the front end and asterisk will continue to be free
> on the back end.
>
> There are already asterisk appliances available. This will also make it a
> ripe product.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Reimers" <treimers at ashevillenc.gov>
> To: "Scott Voll" <svoll.voip at gmail.com>
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:06:32 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Microsoft Voicemail vs Unity Voicemail
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> well, on the note of moving away from Unity
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> I'll ask the question:
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> Has anyone on the list considered or experimented with integrating
> Asterisk's IVR/voicemail/call handlers into UCM at any level?
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> I did a SIP trunk between an Asterisk server and a CCM 4.X server once and
> it worked quite handily to support a few wireless SIP phones.
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> I've never tried out the IVR capacities of Asterisk and just wondered if
> anyone found it to be usable?
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> I'd be interested to hear where people place Asterisk on the playing field
> now.
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> Tim Reimers
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Scott Voll
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:40 PM
> *To:* Tkachuk,Birni
> *Cc:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Microsoft Voicemail vs Unity Voicemail
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> It is definately something I've been kicking around for some time.  I just
> haven't yet pulled the trigger.
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>
> I have Exchange 2k7 UM installed at one of my School Districts and they
> love it (but they also have never had unity).  The have a great voice portal
> which they love.  they have true UM.  Negitves are lack of Call handlers and
> the such.
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> I have a SLA with MS for pretty much all Enterprise OS / Apps and it would
> not cost use much at all.  I've been totally frustrated with Cisco on their
> pricing structure for smartnet / subscriptions.  I'm paying more for my
> Unity server in contract then my CM cluster.
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> budgets get any tighter and it may just push me over the top.  We already
> use OCS for IM / Presence, and I'm working on integrating CM into it.  I
> think I could see us going to Excheange 2k7 pretty easy.  I don't see coming
> off CM for Call Processing or UCCx for contact center, but Unity is pretty
> easy to flip a coin.  and it would get it off my plate and on to my Exchange
> / AD guys plate =)
>
>
>
> Scott
>
> 2009/2/18 Tkachuk,Birni <birnit at nait.ca>
>
> Has anyone thrown in the towel with Unity and opted out for the Microsoft
> Voicemail product.    We're aware of the work around with MWI.  What about
> interfacing with a Blackberry Enterprise Server?
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> Birni Tkachuk
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