Ever Sales Slide I see, and all of the marketing people at Cisco keep telling me Cisco CUBE is the product to use for Phone Proxy (The ability for a phone to connect to it's home cluster over the internet without a VPN) for VPN Less Connectivity for ip phone devices. There is ZERO documentation on how to configure this, what is/is not supported, etc.  I've searched everywhere.  Can someone with knowledge of CUBE Phone Proxy configuration please point me in the direction of a configuration guide for this functionality? Thanks          ... View more

Can anyone let me know how SingleWire InformaCast 9.1 basic paging will operate with BE 6K 9.1 when its released.  Meaning, can it run co-res as a 6th application with CUCM, CUCXN, UPM, CUPS, and say VCS?      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89ubjcERis&utm_campaign=partner-announcements&utm_source=hubspot_email_marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_content=5975011&_hse=clayo%40marconet.com&_hsmi=5975011&_hsh=3e73ba469f70467b74ed83d73ff3bd2d ... View more

I know i've brought this up to a few individuals already, but thought i'd post it as well: 1. CCW does not allow you to put Smartnet on both VCS and Communicaitons Manager under the BE6K bundle.  It's one or the other. 2. CCW does not allow you to match Smartnet for 5 years if you choose 5 years of UCSS 3. CCW does not allow you to create "locations" when doing a configuration.  So if you have a customer with 10 locations, it's impossible to identify which parts on a configuration go to what site.  Unless you create 10 separate configurations which is just unacceptable. 4. CCW does not allow you to chose "Tier 2" smartnet like CON-SNT-SMS.  So we have to double efforts to add smartnet on Disti Orders. 5. The Ordering GUide for BE6K indicates the Migration SKU but it appears as though it's a Top level part, when infact it's actually a bundle option under the CBE6K-NEW top level part. Anyone else have anything that needs to be added to CCW for functionality to make it easier on us resellers? ... View more

I disucssed this today on our call, but i'd like to see if anyone else would be interested in this concept: When creating sites and device/user profiles, the ability to "preview" the automatically created Naming convensions so you can modify them to your customers standards before UPM pushes all of the settings to CUCM, etc. Secondly, I'd like the ability in UPM to go back in and re-name information so that you can modify said naming convensions. Thoughts on this? ... View more

In trying to compare Jabber to Microsoft Lync to customers, one glaring issue we cannot yet over come is that Microsoft Lync has an "Edge Server" so users can use Lync without a VPN connections from anywhere over SSL. jabber on prem we cannot do this.  WebEx Connect Jabber obviously works this way.  We need the ability to have an "Edge" server.  If it were an ASA service like all of the other services that would be great. Anyone else see this issue?            ... View more

I like that CUPM can do Day 1 Setup, ie Dial Plan Creation, CSS, Partitions, Device Pools, etc. However, as you know there are 50 ways to setup CUCM and everyone does things a little different.  I want to see CUPM configurable so that we can setup what / how we want the dial plan to look like, what the Partitions, CSS, Device Pool Names, etc. are. For example, with the CUPM standard dial plan, you get a Blocked CSS approach, and it doesn't use Local Route Groups for call routing.  What if we always use LRG's and we don't do the Blocked CSS's and isntead just create a single shared set of CSS's for all users? This is just a single example. I understand CUPM is designed for "EASE OF USE" day 2 through forever, however if we are going to have the ability to do Day 1 stuff in CUPM, we need some more capabilities. I'm interested in anyone's comments or feedback.  I'd be happy to discuss this in more depth as well. I'll contiue to play with the deployment to see how it behaves as I add more complex senerios.          ... View more

The goal for our technology team and installation timeline would be to create a way to pre-build all Useage Templates, Site Data, etc. into a nice little package we could deploy as a starting point for all isntalls.  Then go back and modify the customer specific needs. For example: 95% of our installs will have 3 usage Profiles: - Public Space      - 6901/6921 Phone      - No features - Standard User      - 6941/6945/7945/CSF      - All features - Executive User      - 7945/7965/8945/CSF      - All features I would also like the ability to create a "Site-1", "Site-2", "Site-3", etc.  So when we go into a customer, import our base template, we just delete the extra sites, rename the current template ones to the customer lcoations, and deployment is complete.  Just add users. Please let me know if this is something we can acomplish with CUPM-BE, or at least get it roadmapped for 9.1 ... View more

So after a SITE was created, I called it "Main Site", I wanted to go back in and modify some of the settings I skipped over during the initial install for testing. I however am NOT able to edit the site for Directory Number Blocks, or SRST, change timezone, extension lenght, etc.  I believe in the real world we would need the ability to make these types of changes day 2. ... View more