[cisco-voip] Cisco Voice AND M$ Lync

[Brent Pollock]

I am leaning on my SE to get some internal info on the subject. I'll make
sure to share what I can.


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Erick Wellnitz <ewellnitzvoip at gmail.com>wrote:

> I did as well without major issue.  The account team's major reason was
> the not-so-standard standards based sip implementation by MS.  It was also
> much easier to set up both G711 and G729 with the CUBE in between.
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> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Matt Slaga (AM) <
> matt.slaga at dimensiondata.com> wrote:
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>> That is quite interesting.  I’ve done dozens of Lync and Cisco UC
>> integrations and never needed a CUBE in-between.****
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>> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
>> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Erick Wellnitz
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 22, 2013 1:03 PM
>> *To:* Brent Pollock
>> *Cc:* Cisco VoIP List
>> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Cisco Voice AND M$ Lync****
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>> My experience with the integration is with the audio portions.****
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>> First and foremost, you must use CUBE to integrate CUCM with Lync due to
>> Microsoft's "standards" based SIP implementation.  Microsoft, as usual, put
>> their own spin on the SIP standards which makes the integration flaky at
>> best and the CUBE can do manipulations a direct SIP trunk cannot.  I had
>> QoS configured but still had issues with voice quality when using Lync
>> conferencing via CUCM.  The last issue I encountered was Lync's logging
>> features.  The logs would never point to a problem and the logs were
>> enormous.****
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>> Remember as well that Lync is all software...and is on Windows.  It also
>> took us forever to get the edge servers working properly for external use.
>> We had three different Premier field engineers on site and got different
>> answers from each as to what we needed to change.  All said, the basic
>> functins wored well but the "UC" functions never quite worked right with
>> Lync.****
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>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Brent Pollock <hashtagvoip at gmail.com>
>> wrote:****
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>> Any issues as a result of SIP integration documented? I have been making
>> this arguement for about 6 months. We have an extensive Cisco VoIP
>> infrastructure and a Lync system support a subset of users for IM only. The
>> lync system is also "federated" with a group of users we have in office
>> 365. There have been fears that the integration to office in the cloud will
>> suffer as a result of the replacement of messenger with skype. Instead of
>> going with my initial instinct and negatively speak on Lync, I have decided
>> to take a positive approach and present the positives of both products. I
>> will also be making it clear the limitation that are presented by
>> attempting a presence integration to Lync for phone status.****
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>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Erick Wellnitz <ewellnitzvoip at gmail.com>
>> wrote:****
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>> I did on my last project.  It was an easy sell for Jabber on the
>> technical front thanks to the Cisco account team.  My problem was that a
>> prior employee promised the executives the moon, stars, planets, comets,
>> nebula and pulsars with Lync so that investment had already been made.***
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>> Your account team should be able to get you a feature comparison.****
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>> If someone tries to get you to integrate Lync and CUCM via SIP...run
>> away!  It is a nightmare.****
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>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Brent Pollock <hashtagvoip at gmail.com>
>> wrote:****
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>> Anyone out there fight the Lync vs Jabber battle? Currently working on a
>> presentation on features of both as well as what can be delivered using
>> both. Anyone care to share suggestions or reference material?
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>> TIA****
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