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Introducing the Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway

Submitted by ttrentler on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 21:27

Lets say you have 4 offices each with a UC520 or ISR running Unity Express.
Wouldn't it be nice if you had one voicemail directory to search for all of your company's voicemail users? One place to store distribution lists?

Well now you can.
I had a chance this week to play with the new Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway and it is pretty slick.
I was in a lab environment with 6 ISR routers each running CME and Unity Express and in half an hour they were all up.

This device supports up to 50000 voicemail subscribers and 1000 locations on a single network module. It uses VPIM to network different locations. Since it uses VPIM voicemail delivery is done via SMPT from Unity Express to Unity Express, it is a great solution for connecting systems across low bandwidth WANs. It works with the UC500 as well and Unity and Avaya.

More information is available at Cisco's site here.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps8605/index.html
#1Submitted by pb on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 20:42.

That is cool, but the

That is cool, but the question is, who still uses that much VM anymore ?

Here in Europe, none of my customers wanted VM with their CMEs.
They say that those that are supposed to be able to reach'em have the cell number, all the others have email.

I cannot really disagree. VM seems just another redundant channel to me, slow and unable to convey much information. I would hate having to check it daily.

On the other hand I see that in the US, VM is still much used. Of course I never leave any message, as I feel sorry for the person that have to listen to it, on top to a ton of email,

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