<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Asterisk is another one they will have to worry about. More in the small business sector in the short/med term, but once they get scaling and high availability sorted out, it will be a challenger. And yes, as someone mentioned, it needs to be more user friendly. I think what you will find is that people will "sell" the front end and asterisk will continue to be free on the back end.<br><br>There are already asterisk appliances available. This will also make it a ripe product.<br><br><br><br>---<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<br>(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)<br>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>"Bad grammar makes me [sic]" - Tshirt<br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Tim Reimers" <treimers@ashevillenc.gov><br>To: "Scott Voll" <svoll.voip@gmail.com><br>Cc: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:06:32 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Microsoft Voicemail vs Unity Voicemail<br><br>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="687250319-18022009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">well, on the note of moving away from
Unity</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="687250319-18022009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">I'll ask the question:</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="687250319-18022009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Has anyone on the list considered or experimented with
integrating Asterisk's IVR/voicemail/call handlers into UCM at any
level?</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="687250319-18022009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">I did a SIP trunk between an Asterisk server and a CCM 4.X
server once and it worked quite handily to support a few wireless SIP
phones.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="687250319-18022009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">I've never tried out the IVR capacities of Asterisk and
just wondered if anyone found it to be usable?</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="687250319-18022009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">I'd be interested to hear where people place Asterisk on
the playing field now.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial">Tim Reimers</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial">phone - 828-259-5512</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott
Voll<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:40 PM<br><b>To:</b>
Tkachuk,Birni<br><b>Cc:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re:
[cisco-voip] Microsoft Voicemail vs Unity Voicemail<br></font><br></div>
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<div>It is definately something I've been kicking around for some time. I
just haven't yet pulled the trigger.</div>
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<div>I have Exchange 2k7 UM installed at one of my School Districts and they
love it (but they also have never had unity). The have a great voice
portal which they love. they have true UM. Negitves are lack of Call
handlers and the such.</div>
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<div>I have a SLA with MS for pretty much all Enterprise OS / Apps and it
would not cost use much at all. I've been totally frustrated with Cisco on
their pricing structure for smartnet / subscriptions. I'm paying more for
my Unity server in contract then my CM cluster.</div>
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<div>budgets get any tighter and it may just push me over the top. We
already use OCS for IM / Presence, and I'm working on integrating CM into
it. I think I could see us going to Excheange 2k7 pretty easy. I
don't see coming off CM for Call Processing or UCCx for contact center, but
Unity is pretty easy to flip a coin. and it would get it off my plate and
on to my Exchange / AD guys plate =)</div>
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<div>Scott<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/18 Tkachuk,Birni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:birnit@nait.ca" target="_blank">birnit@nait.ca</a>></span><br>
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<p>Has anyone thrown in the towel with Unity and opted out for the Microsoft
Voicemail product. We're aware of the work around with
MWI. What about interfacing with a Blackberry Enterprise Server?
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