[cisco-voip] QoS and Microsoft OCS

[Ed Leatherman]

Jeff, I know there are some looking at moving to OCS for voice mail
from Unity due to maintenance and license costs on unity vs what
people can get from microsoft.

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Matt Slaga (US)
> <Matt.Slaga at us.didata.com> wrote:
>>
>> With this said, the next release of OCS (now called ‘MCS’) will be a much closer peer-level with Cisco on the voice side.  For now though, the best of both worlds can be found in integration of the two.
>
> I'm curious... we have had CallManager/Unity/Contact Center Express in
> use for several years (although we don't take advantage of as many
> features as we could).  We also have Exchange (2003, soon to be 2010)
> for our main mail system (our Unity server is in a separate AD
> forest/exchange store although that's likely to change).  There's been
> some push by our Exchange people to implement some of the OCS
> functionality for our users.
>
> Is there really a benefit to going with OCS vs using what we have with
> Cisco and maybe adding a CUPS server?  The promised XMPP integration
> in CUPS 8 looks very interesting to me.  I also need to implement
> Cisco Emergency Responder soon too.
>
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> Jeff Ollie
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