Cisco UCM vs UCM Express

[m.cristea]

Hi guys,

I was wondering if I can get some info regarding what the differences are between the Cisco Unified Communication Manager and the Unified Communication Manager Express. In interested in the functionality details.

[Vivek Batra]

You should browse google and Cisco document site to get more details on the subject. These are two different products catering different enterprise segment. You need to study these productions in isolation, I don't think there is any official document published by Cisco covering the exact difference between these two.

[m.cristea]

Thats a pity, I'm sure a lot of people would be intrested

[Vivek Batra]

Lot of people would be interested in 'what'?? If you mean answering your question, yeah sure you should expect the same.

CUCM in itself is wide product, CME too. It is very difficult to exactly pin-point on the differences, still I did google it for you. Would suggest you to browse through documents as much as possible, this will prepare for you to understand the basic product architecture. Any specific question, let us know.

https://communities.cisco.com/thread/6562?start=0&tstart=0

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/9946831/difference-between-cm-cme

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/10923511/cucmdifference-term-features

http://blogspot.ipcomtech.net/2010/08/whats-difference-between-callmanager.html

- Vivek

[m.cristea]

Found this interesting Matrix regarding the features.

See attached, too bad it's a little bit old.

Would appreciate if somebody has a newer version

[Manish Gogna]

As pointed by Vivek these are two completely different platforms. If you are only interested in the features they support then just check the following links which detail CUCM and CME features separately

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucme/admin/configuration/guide/cmeadm/cmeroad.html

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/admin/11_0_1/featureConfig/CUCM_BK_FE5123E0_00_cucm-feature-configuration-guide_1101.html

You can compare these and it should be good enough if you are just interested in the features.

If you are planning to deploy any of these then you should engage your Cisco Account team as there are a lot of factors that need to be considered before deploying any of these platforms.

Manish