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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you go outside of the TRC’s, you then fall under spec’s based. The docwiki has good information on this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dennis Heim<br>
Senior Engineer (Unified Communications)<br>
CDW Advanced Technology Services<br>
10610 9<sup>th</sup> Place<br>
Bellevue, WA 98004<br>
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425.310.5299 Single Number Reach (WA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">317.569.4255 Single Number Reach (IN)<br>
317.569.4201 Fax</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
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<a href="mailto:dennis.heim@cdw.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">dennis.heim@cdw.com</span></a></span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><br>
</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.cdw.com/content/solutions/unified-communications/"><span style="color:blue">cdw.com/content/solutions/unified-communications/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike King<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 14, 2012 7:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Cisco VoIPoE List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] Processors on the UCS blades.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We recently put our UC on a UCS system.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We bought specific blades for the UC system (B200 M2's), specifically TRC #2. Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5640 @ 2.67GHz<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The datacenter operators upgraded a different server, and now they have extra Intel X5550 that they are offering me.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So two questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would I still be supported (maybe under some other umbrella) if the processors were switched out.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it even worthwhile?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Stats (The table is not going to break well in this email:)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right">1333<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
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