hi mtahirkhan82
so regarding Cisco Voip home lab for building knowledge and testing purposes and also walking the first step in this field without paying a lot of money mainly if u get the following items u can cover most of Cisco Callamanger-ip telephony configuration areas and really u will be able to design and implement a Cisco ip telephony project:
1: cisco callmanager 4.x virtual machine (VMWare), install it on any capable pc or server. if u could not get CCM VM files please let me know i can send u a link where u can download it.
2: cisco ip communicator (softphone installed on ur pc) or if u would like to work on physical ip phones, u have to buy cisco ip phones (note that it works without license for home lab purposes so don't worry about phones licensing). also to power ip phones u need either a poe switch or power adapter for each ip phone or even active patch panel (that gives power on 4,5,7,8 pins).
3: if u want to go outside (calls to pstn) in ur testings u have to buy a small series gateway (1700 is ok or start with 2800 ISR's series) download a voice grade ios. and a FXO card (say 2 ports PN: VIC2-2FXO), just plug it (RJ11) with ur telephone line box on the wall.
4: u have to start reading callmanager system and admin guides in addition to callmanager SRND.
hth
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/majdi
