Lookout on the Cisco side, they are pushing people really hard to their UCS platform for running the CallManager servers. Unless you already use UCS you will have a huge change in management and cost.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stefan Jafs Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 11:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] How much to implement a Cisco telephone implementation We are looking at replacing our old Nortel BCM 450 for about 275 users. The shortlist is Cisco and Microsoft Lync. We are leaning towards Cisco a bit more expensive but also only 1 vendor (the President likes the "hardware" platform, even though Cisco runs with VM's). Anyhow implementation is about $66k (Lync is about $56k), to me that sounds like about twice too much, has anyone have done a similar implementation, and / or is it a fair price? And we would do the placement of the phones ourselves. __________________________________ Stefan Jafs
