[cisco-voip] Centralized Cisco Cube Deployment

[LTGJAMAICA]

Thanks for your feedback. Is the Vcube a viable option? What trade offs
exist when using a vcube

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021, 11:26 AM Carlo Calabrese <carlo_calabrese2006 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Centralized saves money and for me time.
> I don't do SRST at remote sites because if the network is down. most staff
> can't work or answer questions. and for 911 when the network is down, most
> people have cell phones.
> All the conferencing and resources are at the headend so that saves BW.
> and if you need more ports, you go into the vendor's portal and increase
> as needed.
> For 911, I use CER and use the network its on to get the correct ERLIN and
> save money by not having every number setup as 911. and if a phone is moved
> to another loacation, don't have to worry about updating 911.
>
>
> On Monday, June 7, 2021, 09:13:17 PM PDT, 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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