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From an Cisco Spark API perspective it’s a meeting room system as that is the model the User Experience is aligned for, so a long way to go for more traditional telephony features that are out of context for a meeting i.e. MWI.
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<div class="">Cisco Spark reminds me of the Windows 8 fiasco of making a desktop OS fit a tablet interface at the expense of normal desktop interactions, hence the swing back to normal desktop with Windows 10 etc. For me Cisco Spark is a "soft meeting" client
that needs be extended to sensibly incorporate more traditional "soft phone" functionality/interactions.</div>
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<div class="">That’s not to say Cisco Spark is not great at what it does, just that there needs to be more of a choice/overlap between Spark/Jabber, until then Spark will be more of a niche solution.</div>
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<div class="">Also, it would appear all the marketing push for Cisco Spark has given Jabber a boost, and given Cisco have finally committed to port all relevant IP Communicator functionality to Jabber so IPC can be EOS that will keep Jabber at the primary soft
phone solution for most larger organisations until Cisco can find a way forward with a unified soft phone solution.</div>
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<div class="">Anyway, just my personal opinion, I’m sure others with disagree ;)</div>
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I could almost get away with “if you need uccx, use jabber; else, use spark”<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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But to say, “if you need MWI use jabber; else, use spark” – ugh.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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I guess I don’t mind having two deployments, if the Jabber deployment is small and manageable.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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It’s a shame, really.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif;" class="">☹</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:bmeade90@gmail.com" class="">bmeade90@gmail.com</a> [<a href="mailto:bmeade90@gmail.com" class="">mailto:bmeade90@gmail.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On
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No UCCX support has been the big killer for us suggesting it more as a Jabber replacement.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Well, that is certainly disappointing. Spark makes a softphone deployment much easier, but not without key features like MWI.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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I hate the fact that we’re going to have to deploy both to get all the features we want/need.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [cisco-voip] Spark Hybrid and MWI/Voicemail<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Nothing I'm aware of. Just completed one of these. Basically just glorified SNR with URIs and some calendar integration.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Is there no voicemail integration with Connection? No MWI?<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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