[cisco-voip] Centralized Cisco Cube Deployment

[LTGJAMAICA]

Well I am going to do a small pocket so I can test. Leave the voice
gateways Pri circuits in place as backup until I am sure we have a viable
solution

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021, 12:12 AM Kent Roberts <kent at fredf.org> wrote:

> Yes it would.
>
> Brings up other concerns….
>         911 for example….  Local pots line… multiple WAN circuits….  To
> resolve that….
>         Can the site survive without PSTN if its single hosted?
>         what happens if you loose the DC Wan connect?   What do your sites
> do…. Do you have resources to handle those calls during the outage.
>  (Vmail,, or a ton of ports in IVR)
>         Do you have enough bandwidth from the DC to the branches?
>         What codec will you support?   G729/G711.   (Remember not
> customers support G729, and not all carriers will “normalize” their
> network).
>                  Example ATT will route calls to other att customers
> without leaving their cloud, if they can’t do G729 and that is how you
> start the call, it will fail.  (ATT is changing this FYI)
>         QOS policy?
>         Business support.. IE in we can save money, but a failure might
> mean loss of calls…. Are they ok with this.
>         DSP resources.   Do you have enough to support Conferencing…… etc
>         Firewalls,  Does your firewall team block access branch to branch…
> do you need to setup relays?
>
>         VPN….. Jabber access…  Concerns with voice parts across the
> branches..
>
>
> Hope that helps.   It is very much do-able, and can save lots of money.
> Just need to think it through and not rush….   Its really no different then
> say a branch being the data center for all the other sites…
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Jun 7, 2021, at 8:23 PM, LTGJAMAICA <popsychin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I want to know if a centralized cisco cube deployment would allows us to
> do away with our existing voice gateways.
> >
> > I am trying to reduce costs by removing 6 cisco voice gateways and isdn
> pri circuits located at 6 branch offices. I want to replace these
> individual gateways with two cisco cubes/vcubes located at our hub location
> connected to an ITSP via a Sip Trunk. Each branch is connected to an MPLS
> wan.
> >
> >
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