[cisco-voip] Cisco SME

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SME is not meant to replace CUBE.  SME is Cisco's reply to Kamailio (former OpenSER) and other centralized SIP routers. In the big SIP world, large SIP clients / providers typically have a SIP routing engine sitting in the center of their network. It is SIP's "Gatekeeper" equivalent and messaging mediator for all SIP call agents to include IP PBX and SBCs (CUBEs in Cisco world). RTP will not pass through it, only SIP messaging. What it does is presents a familiar GUI and way of doing things. If you have the ability to did deep into the SIP protocol and build a server on Solaris or LINUX, Kamailio is at least 100x more powerful and flexible. If you are not LINUX or Solaris smart and are not a SIP protocol level guy or gal, SME is most definitely a better path to take for centralized SIP CAC, message normalization, call reporting, and troubleshooting. If this is SP level deployment, there are a ton of Kamailio programs who can come in a set it all
 up. 
 
What I would like to know, Is will this support the generation of early offer messaging without MTP support? This is feature is keeping Cisco out of the big SIP world. I know this is on the road map, but how late to the party will they show? 
 

--- On Sat, 5/15/10, Nick Matthews <matthnick at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Nick Matthews <matthnick at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Cisco SME
To: "Ahmed Elnagar" <ahmed_elnagar at rayacorp.com>
Cc: "cisco-voip voyp list" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 5:28 PM


CUBE = external

SME = internal

So even if you use SME to aggregate your internal dial plan and want to hook it up to a SIP trunk, you would still use a CUBE in front of your SME.  SME is designed for larger deployments where dial plan aggregation is important.  To a degree you can aggregate a dial plan on CUBE as well, but it is not as scalable or easy to manage.  

To further confuse you, the following products can all do some sort of dial plan aggregation:  CUSP, SIP proxy on CUPS, CUCM, SME, CUBE, and GK.  


-nick


On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Ahmed Elnagar <ahmed_elnagar at rayacorp.com> wrote:




So what it is the difference between it and CUBE…and when to use it and not use CUBE!!!

 

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  Ahmed Elnagar
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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Aman Chugh
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:38 AM
To: Bill
Cc: cisco-voip voyp list
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Cisco SME



 

Check with your Cisco SE. It does offer some enchancements on trunking and yes it does not have phones registered on it.

 

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_Manager_-_Session_Manager_Edition:_Session_Manager_Designs

 

Regards,

Aman

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Matthew Saskin <msaskin at gmail.com> wrote:
It's basically just CUCM without IP phones registered.  You use it as a point of centralized call routing (multiple CUCM clusters trunk to it, traditional PBX's via a gateway trunk to it, etc.).  IME can be deployed centrally off of SME or off of a single CUCM 8 cluster.

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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Bill <bill at hitechconnection.net> wrote:




So I am looking at the Session Manager Edition. Is it just CUCM but without IP phones registered to it? Is it just a centralized call manager for centralized call managers? Also if we deploy IME at some point do we need SME or can we just use the CUCM cluster we already have? 
 
 
 
 
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