Cisco Unified Communications Manager Architecture

Cisco Press 

By Dennis Hartmann 

Organization World | JUL 25, 2008 12:00 AM PST 

This exercise presents and depicts the job, design, equipment and programming necessities, and the authorizing model of the CUCM. 

Part Objectives 

After finishing this section, you will have a comprehension of the CUCM design and have the option to meet the accompanying destinations: 

Portray the parts of a cisco unified callmanager arrangement and every segment's usefulness. 

Depict the design and job of CUCM. 

Depict the equipment necessities for CUCM. 

Portray the attributes of the CUCM working framework. 

Depict the qualities of the CUCM information base and how it gives repetition. 

Depict the permitting model of CUCM. 

Portray how to ascertain, confirm, and add permit units to CUCM. 

CUCM Overview 

Cisco Unified Communications (UC) is an IP-based interchanges framework incorporating voice, video, information, and portability items and applications. It empowers more powerful, secure interchanges and can change the manner by which we convey. UC speaks to a correspondences outlook change like that of the creation of the message. UC eliminates the geographic obstructions of viable correspondences using voice, video, and information incorporation. Business can be directed with a smoothness that advances and develops with you. Data has been readily available for quite a while, however UC empowers the sharing of this data to make information and worth. 

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Cisco UC is essential for an incorporated arrangement that incorporates network framework, security, portability, network the board items, lifecycle administrations, adaptable organization and reevaluated the executives choices, end-client and accomplice financing bundles, and outsider correspondence applications. 

Cisco UC can radically change the reality of business by making more viable correspondences without losing the individual idea of an up close and personal discussion. More powerful correspondence prompts diminished chance to advertise and agile change of business measures through coordinated effort. 

Cisco UC Solution Components 

The Cisco UC technique envelops voice, video, and information traffic inside a solitary organization framework. Cisco UC hardware is equipped for dealing with each of the three traffic types and interfacing with all principles based organization conventions. 

Cisco IP Communications speaks to another method of conveying UC usefulness to big business clients. Rather than conveying an assortment of disconnected items with singular delivery dates, testing strategy, and documentation, Cisco UC is a planned arrival of a coordinated arrangement of items that are tried, archived, and upheld as a framework. 

Figure 1-1 outlines the four standard layers of the Cisco UC voice framework model and the segments that make up the layers.