<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I was just hearing from a Cisco person, who was saying something like "Everybody said they had to have it, but when we finally had an offer, there were literally ZERO people who did it."</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>And here I was thinking that my customer base was just cloud adverse and everyone else was jumping on the AWS band wagon. Guess not.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 9:28 AM UC Penguin <<a href="mailto:gentoo@ucpenguin.com">gentoo@ucpenguin.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Shared resources like AWS on the surface seem like a great idea for lab stuff. Looks like a great solution for on demand scaling etc though.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It just doesn’t seem to that useful for UC purposes and even if it were it would still be cheaper to buy one server and run it all on one box.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It’s interesting to watch management push for cloud everything and then slowly back away when they see the increased cost.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:1727fbcb42ca98d53961" width="1080"></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 4, 2020, at 09:11, Tim Smith <<a href="mailto:tim.smith@enject.com.au" target="_blank">tim.smith@enject.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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Back to CUCM on prem in lab via VPN.</div>
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The CUCM AWS deployment is out of reach for lab purposes.</div>
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That one is basically CUCM on VMWare in AWS (which is like the dedicated resources) - it's not AWS AMI format.</div>
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That said, I've got a great provider here in Australia that does VMWare based cloud (NSX).</div>
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That would be good for lab.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Was that trunk to Twilio for CME? If not, what was on the backside of your gateway? CUCM? If so, was that in AWS too?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 6:54 PM Tim Smith <<a href="mailto:tim.smith@enject.com.au" target="_blank">tim.smith@enject.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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Great question, also interested in hearing production stories.</div>
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I've deployed Virtual Acme Packet's previously - same limitations - no DSP's etc.</div>
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It was a little early and we had teething issues of appliance to virtual machine type stuff.. but through the updates this improved.</div>
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I've played with CUBE on CSR1000V on AWS - SIP trunks to Twilio - and it works great.</div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I've also run CSR1000V in AWS for dynamic VPN's.. which again works great.</span></div>
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time.. but when that 1% case comes up later - then it's certainly handy.</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I think that's a big reason vCUBE is not quoted in customer land.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Anyone have some vCUBEs out in production for a while, and willing to share their feelings and/or experiences with it?
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<div>Anything from deployment, to restrictions, to licensing, to upgrade processes, lessons learned, etc?</div>
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<div>I think the obvious thing is the lack of DSP/PVDM since this is a virtual machine, but what else?</div>
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<div>I don't come across these in the field at all, and I don't see them being proposed or quoted these days, despite vCUBE having been around for a few years now.</div>
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