We are a longtime Cisco VOIP shop and switched over to UCS within the last year. From my perspective, it is a very positive change. It is running on top of vSphere, which we already have and support, and saved us a bunch in hardware costs.
A previous responder said that Cisco doesn't offer soft phones. It's not really my area, so I can't say what they have now for sure, but I do know that Cisco offered soft phones 13 years ago when we first went with them. Cisco's solution is expensive and is not perfect. It is a solid platform, though. Has been very stable for us for 13 years and I am personally still using the same phone that I was originally given during that rollout. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Senter, John Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 12:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: How much to implement a Cisco telephone implementation 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
