I was at a client recently where they had Cisco tablets. When docked on your desk, they acted as softphones. When you had a meeting, you could undock them and use them as tablets for taking notes and whatnot. I don't remember what model they were but I remember thinking it was a very cool idea.
On 26 March 2014 16:44, Mayo, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > 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* > > > -- *James Rankin* --------------------- RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
