[cisco-voip] vCUBE Experiences

[Tim Smith]

Great question, also interested in hearing production stories.

I've deployed Virtual Acme Packet's previously - same limitations - no DSP's etc.
It was a little early and we had teething issues of appliance to virtual machine type stuff.. but through the updates this improved.

I've played with CUBE on CSR1000V on AWS - SIP trunks to Twilio - and it works great.
It's certainly so nice and easy to spin up.
I've also run CSR1000V in AWS for dynamic VPN's.. which again works great.

The DSP's are a nice fallback. You don't need them 99% of the time.. but when that 1% case comes up later - then it's certainly handy.
I think that's a big reason vCUBE is not quoted in customer land.
I assume it could be popular in service provider land though.

With that Acme deployment (and this was actually years ago now) - we were migrating, so we still had PRI gateways with plenty of free DSP's, which we could use for Transcoders if required.

Cheers,

Tim.





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Anyone have some vCUBEs out in production for a while, and willing to share their feelings and/or experiences with it?

Anything from deployment, to restrictions, to licensing, to upgrade processes, lessons learned, etc?

I think the obvious thing is the lack of DSP/PVDM since this is a virtual machine, but what else?

I don't come across these in the field at all, and I don't see them being proposed or quoted these days, despite vCUBE having been around for a few years now.
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