Cisco CUCM Hardware Selection

[jamaludeen_s]

Hi,

One of our customer is looking for migrating their existing analogue telephones to Cisco IP Telephony, It's completely isolated network no connectivity to outside world. They requirement is to have minimum 50 user and maximum of 100 users, the end user IP Phones model is 8945 (qty around 70). I need assistance in selecting proper CUCM hardware. 

Regards

Jamal

[Mohammed al Baqari · Accepted solution]

This will help

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/uc_system/virtualization/virtualization-cisco-unified-communications-manager.html

[jamaludeen_s]

Thanks Mohammed. I think i will have to go with Cisco Business Edition 6000 series

[Dennis Mink]

Depending on your feature requirements, with that few phones and user, you might want to look into Call Manager express

[jamaludeen_s]

Hi Dennis,

Thanks for the reply, The customer prefers CUCM (Server) instead of CME Router. that's the reason I am checking is there any server which support less number of IP Phones. I think cisco doesn't have any other option other than business edition.

Reagrds
Jamal

[Dennis Mink]

cucm runs on a VM and supports a max of 40000 per cluster, cme has a max of 450.

you might want to look into this:  

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/unified-communications/business-edition-6000/index.html#~stickynav=2

[R0g22]

Alternatively, you can look into BE4000 -
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/unified-communications/business-edition-4000/index.html

It supports a maximum of 200 IP Phones.

[Jaime Valencia]

That's not an applicable option based on the requirements:

One of our customer is looking for migrating their existing analogue telephones to Cisco IP Telephony, It's completely isolated network no connectivity to outside world.

[R0g22]

My bad. Overlooked that.