So with the introduction of Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment, now upgrade any of your UC applications its easier and quicker than before. One of the big advantages that I see with this new product is that the product can have control of the overall infrastructure, starting from VMware all the way to the UC applications. […]
Upgrade CUCM 9.1 to 10.5 – Procedure (No Prime Collaboration Deployment) Read More »
This one was a very funny one and I’d like to share with you. After an install of a remote office using the following equipment: CIsco 2901 with an ISM for CUE and an AutoAttendant that when the office is open sends the call to a Hunt Group in CUCM and when they are close
Unity Express AA Transfer no Ring-back – Perception is Key! Read More »
In order to organize myself for my lab preparation I need to work on my speed and accuracy, so I created quick and very general Lab outlines, which will be covering CUCM as of now. I created them so that I can guide myself and know where to begin, where to stop and don’t burn
CCIE Collaboration Labs by Technologies Read More »
Just for curiosity, I would like to know how is the people on this group preparing for the CCIE Collaboraiton Lab, right now here is my preparation and roadmap: I have completed a lab in order to be able to study most of the technologies included in the blueprint, here is what I have: 3
How are you preparing for the CCIE Collaboration LAB ? Read More »
Hi there, today I have a customer that wanted to upgrade from CUCM 9.1.2 to 10.5 – which sounds pretty easy… think again, so this is a BE6K deployment where CUCM instance was configured with the recommended OVA from CCO. When starting the upgrade I found that the upgrade didn’t wanted to proceed as expected.
Upgrading CUCM from 9.1.2 to 10.5 – Issues Read More »
Hi people, I wanted to take this opportunity and share my toolbox and workflow with you. In case you don’t know who I am and what I do here is a quick reference note. What I do and who I am: I’m a Lead Technical consultant specialized in Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration (a mouthful,
Andres’s toolbox, workflow and more… Read More »
Cisco Live 2014 – San Francisco Just wanted to take this time to talk about my experience at Cisco Live 2014, representing the Modcomp team. It was a great experience and a nice way to meet with people that is in the same boat you are, Engineers that are seeing the same issues you see
First contact after I made it back from Cisco Live 2014!! Read More »
So in the traditional Campus Design it used to be Layer 2 from the Access Layer to the Distribution and to the Endpoints, running Layer 3 on the Distribution and the Core, and in most of the cases, you will have a Core/Distribution approach called Collapsed Distribution Core. as shown in the example: Now
CCIE Collaboration – Campus Design (Migration to Routed Access Layer Design) Read More »
Hi there, I have been looking at the new collaboration edge deployments, in order to support Jabber from remote networks without the need of using a VPN (What a relief!!! – I was actually getting slammed from customers because of the lack of options from Cisco). Doing some research I was able to find the
Cisco Collaboration Edge – Mobile Remote Access (Jabber with no VPN) Read More »
So I stumbled into this topic with a customer and was having few issues to understand the mechanics of this simple step, my customer is having issues with quality on the music on hold. Here is what I did: Looked up in CUCM Flash and found a media file that I was going to use
Configure MoH on CUCME and Transcoding Read More »
