[cisco-voip] Microsoft OCS versus CUCM

[Matthew Saskin]

Dial-in voice access to OCS is spot-on to having on-prem meetingplace or
it's equivalents

Matthew Saskin
msaskin at gmail.com
203-253-9571


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Voice Noob <voicenoob at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Is the dial in conferencing comparable to having meeting place in house
> on premise?
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Matt Slaga (US)
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:40 AM
> *To:* Daniel Martin; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Microsoft OCS versus CUCM
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> We have both Cisco and Microsoft deployed both internally and for many of
> our customers.
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> The client is the biggest difference between the two.  When we pilot both
> CUPC and MOC, it is close to 9 out of 10 want MOC over CUPC.  No disrespect
> for CUPC, but it is a version 2 product whereas Microsoft is on version 13.
> It just has more of the bells and whistles that end users are looking for
> and much deeper integration into office and sharepoint.
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> As far as voice, most of our customers prefer to keep UCM as the call
> control engine so they can utilize QoS and CAC for only one vendor in the
> network (makes sense!).  They will use RCC or CUCIMOC to achieve this and
> keep the MOC client.
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> For some highly mobile users, we have found Microsoft Enterprise Voice
> works well.  Most of these are remote users connecting over the internet so
> CAC and QoS is limited anyways.
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> I think the key piece for Microsoft that will entice more and more buyers
> is the dial-in conferencing.  Having this as part of the OCS system was a
> very strong move from Microsoft.  I’ve got a list of customers that want to
> turn this on just so they can drop their current third party vendors and do
> it all in-house.  Makes a strong ROI, especially for customers that have
> already purchased ECALs for OCS.
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> If you want more info, unicast me.
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> Thanks!
>
> Matt
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Martin
> *Sent:* Monday, October 19, 2009 10:21 PM
> *To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* [cisco-voip] Microsoft OCS versus CUCM
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
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> We are doing a pilot program with Microsoft to test the OCS Collaboration
> tool along with the audio codec.
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> Is anybody using both OCS and CUCM for audio?
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> What are the benefits of both solution or lack of which would help me
> justify one solution rather than the other?
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> Any documents/review available on the Web to review both product’s latest
> version?
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> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Daniel.
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> Daniel Martin
>
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