IP Phones with Licence and DLUs

[sunil_almeida]

We are deploying Cisco Call Unified Manager 6.1, the vendor has quoted for DLUs as well as IP Phones with user Licences.

I thought when you buy an IP phone with user licence, the licence can be converted to DLU.

Can anyone shed some light on 6.1 licensing ?

Thanks

Neal

[thisisshanky]

Thats not needed. Only DLUs are required for the phones. For servers you will need node licenses. End phone licenses are with traditional 4.x licensing.

Sankar

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[thisisshanky]

Also, here is a link.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6788/vcallcon/ps556/ps6164/prod_qas0900aecd805009fc_ps556_Products_Q_and_A_Item.html

[robertdm1973]

This is a valuable post. I just have a follow-up query on IP phone licenses.

I'm fairly new to CallManager and we plan to test a simple set-up here in the office. I will buy a 2811 router with enough memory to run CM Express. Since I already have SMARTNET, I plan to just download the CM Express IOS from Cisco website and purchase a couple of 7960 phones.

Does the IOS already include licenses for IP phones? Or do I need to purchase this extra? If I purchase a license 7960 phone, do I need to get a similar one for the IOS?

Thanks for the help.

[Rob Huffman]

Hi Robert,

Prerequisites for Configuring Cisco Unified CME

Base Cisco Unified CME feature license and phone user licenses that entitle you to use Cisco Unified CME are **purchased.

From this newer CME doc;

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps4625/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00807f6fad.html#wp1017478

Hope this helps!

Rob

[robertdm1973]

Thanks Rob, this PDF answers most of my questions.

It just surprises me that the issue about requiring a license wasn't brought up in most Cisco hand-outs.