Telepresence/Voip CUCM and Support

[Nick Halbert-Lillyman]

Hi,

Is anyone able to tell me if you need to have Telepresence on a seperate cluster to your standard voip in order for it to be supported?

We have a small Voip deployment (approx. 400 phones) on a seperate cluster to our Telepresence but it seems like a waste to have to maintain them seperately.

[jmunoz19]

You can have it all on one cluster if you'd like.  Some prefer to have it on a separate cluster from an administrative and maintenance point of view, but there is nothing wrong with having everything on one cluster.  I personally prefer to have the CTS stuff on a separate cluster so I know any maintenance on the telephony cluster doesn't touch the TelePresence stuff.

[hdewulf]

There is no technical reason for a separate cluster since the release of CUCM 8.0. The reason to separate cluster is for :

1.       Minimum CUCM version required 7.1.x
2.       CUCM only supported a single DSCP marking for video, TelePresence and other video would have the same DSCP marking. 
          From CCM 8.0 support for two video markings was added, and in reality you could have always remarked the TelePresence
          video on the access switch prior to CUCM 8.0
3.       Having a separate cluster allows you to upgrade the TelePresence cluster and gain access to the latest feature sets
          without affecting their voice cluster(s).

[Nick Halbert-Lillyman]

Thanks very much for the info.

[marrachart]

Having it all in the same cluster will make you able to integrate Voice and TelePresence by using IP Phones as endpoints like the Cisco 9971 with camera (without inter-clustering). Will be supported with TP video calls.

This way you have only one device on the desk...

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