[cisco-voip] QoS and Microsoft OCS

[Nick Matthews]

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FWIW in regards to the 'free' licensing from Microsoft - the general
response is that the licensing is a smaller percentage of the TCO than
you might expect, and the pricing isn't that much different.  After
other factors are added is where the Cisco voicemail earns its keep.

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On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Scott Voll <svoll.voip at gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreement with Ed.
> In education (maybe more verticals) people are (we included) moving from
> Unity to Exchange 2010 for UM.  Exchange 2010 is really cool with the speech
> to text feature.  and I get most of it covered under my Microsoft Site
> licensing vs huge maintenance cost from Cisco.  I've been screaming at Cisco
> since one of my schools moved to UM exchange 2007 about 3 years ago about
> costs...... Cisco has not moved so we are in the process of moving.
> as for CUPS vs OCS we have been using OCS (again largely covered under M$
> site licensing) for IM / presence and loving it.  we will be looking at
> adding the cisco Cookie - moc (or however they spell it) to integrate cisco
> CM with OCS.  From my understanding...... most people like OCS better then
> CUPS for features.  YMMV.
> as for Call control I still like CM for the price (haven't had the talk with
> my AM about UCL) and Contract center express has helped us with all the
> reporting.  CER is a good product also.  If price were no object thou, I
> would go with 911enable.  but since price is...... CER works fine.
> just my 2 cents
> Scott
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:13 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.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Ollie
>>
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