08-23-2012 04:02 AM - edited 03-21-2019 06:11 AM
First off, I would like to say my last post was filled with alot of anger and fustration, and admittedly not as productive to the Cisco dev team, or the BU and for this I apologise, however as a the Senior lead UC specialist of my organisation, and being partly responsible for all projects, I cant afford to have my junior engineers wasting days on a BE3k project to get the most basic of things going for our clients. So lets start over........ =)
Moving forward; I dont see many posts here on the Cisco support forums under the BE3k section regarding *improving* the BE3k's functionality and what we (the integrators) would like to see in the next upcoming release cycle. So I have come up with a few things off the top of my head which I would like to see added ( a wish list if you like ). Not all may be possible, and not all may apply to all demographic regions, as long as we know if there will be any plans in the future to add such features to the BE3k.
Ive only worked on the BE3k for a day and consulted with my colleages to compile this list, please feel free to add to it
Thats all I can think of for now, I will add more when I consult my Team of engineers.
08-23-2012 04:03 AM
Spacer
08-23-2012 04:32 AM
Thanks for the feedback. It is constructive.
Please see feedback on your wish list:
1) Night Switch - Not currently supported. It is a feature we are targeting in a follow-up release.
2) Currently one can forward it to any internal extension. What you are asking for is to forward it even an outside number.
3) In Hunt list, you can select the algorithm as Broadcast and that becomes a blast group. Same as 2.
4) This feature is in next release.
5) It is supported with 8.6.4 release. For direct call transfer to voicemail, hit transfer, * followed by extension number and transfer key again (or hang up the phone).
6) It is on list for next release.
7) It is on roadmap, but will take longer time to deliver.
8) It is supported. With 8.6.4 release, one can create multiple Outside DIal Codes on the System Dial Plan page. Then on the site page, one can associate those outside dial codes to different connection groups. In your case, you will have one connection group with SIP connections and another with ISDN.
9) You can configure shared lines, speed dial BLF (monitor keys). Silent ring key is something which is not currently not configurable. I am not sure what is overlay key call. If I understand multicall key, it is call waiting feature. Each line on the phone has max of 2 calls by default.
10) There is a softkey for call forward. Is there any specific reason you are looking for feature access code? I believe feature code is more problem because of reason to remember them. Sofkey is just there.
11) Extension Mobility is supported. It is enabled on Usage Profile
12) With 8.6.4, you can define custom rules for different routing needs. Having said that I agree that translation rules are currently not very flexible. We are planning to improve that in next release.
13) This feature is on roadmap. Will not be available in next release.
14) Reset to Factory Defaults is a feature on roadmap. May not be available in next release.
15) Line 1 is the primary DN. It will be labeled to the Extension number or name. What do u want to label it to?
16) On the System Dial Plan page, there is a tab to do abbreviated dialing. You can configure translation of a speed dial to an E.164 number
17) DHCP Server is on roadmap. It will take longer time to deliver.
18) It is already supported. You can add a VG224 gateway.
19) I agree. Having one setting for all users in a usage profile is not flexible. It should be configurable per user.
Thanks
08-23-2012 04:10 PM
Hi Sanjay,
2) I think what Thanh wants is Hunt group / Blast group needs to be able to forward to either a extension or another hunt group if not answered
08-23-2012 04:48 PM
Hi Sanjay,
Thanks for the response, please see comments below :
1) Night Switch - Not currently supported. It is a feature we are targeting in a follow-up release.
Will this support scheduling and an indicator ?
2) Currently one can forward it to any internal extension. What you are asking for is to forward it even an outside number. Yes, customer X wants to overflow the Hunt Group to an after hours Mobile Number
5) It is supported with 8.6.4 release. For direct call transfer to voicemail, hit transfer, * followed by extension number and transfer key again (or hang up the phone). Good to know, I tried this and it works
8) It is supported. With 8.6.4 release, one can create multiple Outside DIal Codes on the System Dial Plan page. Then on the site page, one can associate those outside dial codes to different connection groups. In your case, you will have one connection group with SIP connections and another with ISDN.
Can the system support +E.164 dialing ? Lets say I want to send +61 2 83945522 out of the SIP trunk ?
9) You can configure shared lines, speed dial BLF (monitor keys). Silent ring key is something which is not currently not configurable. I am not sure what is overlay key call. If I understand multicall key, it is call waiting feature. Each line on the phone has max of 2 calls by default.
At present, the only way to silence the ringing is to DND the phone, but this will silence all keys, consider a CEO who has a private line, or multiple private lines and doesnt want to be disturbed on his private line.
10) There is a softkey for call forward. Is there any specific reason you are looking for feature access code? I believe feature code is more problem because of reason to remember them. Sofkey is just there.
Feature access codes can be much easier to remember to do rather then navigating through a multitude of menus, consider and old TDM user who is used to having press *26 to fwd and #26# to cancel forward, this is much quicker and should be a secondary option to the menu driven way. - Call fwd is only an example.
12) With 8.6.4, you can define custom rules for different routing needs. Having said that I agree that translation rules are currently not very flexible. We are planning to improve that in next release.
This is good, I hope to see that the translation rules will have an option to select which exiting trunk route to use.
14) Reset to Factory Defaults is a feature on roadmap. May not be available in next release.
What about Skipping the wizard all together ?
15) Line 1 is the primary DN. It will be labeled to the Extension number or name. What do u want to label it to?
Heres the scenario on this one, at present doesnt looke like you are able to put the DN number as the label of Line 1. Consider company A has multiple sub-companies/departments coming in on different DID's company A's receptionist wants to have visibility of ALL sub-company's DID presented on each line of her handset. At present, you will need to create another USER and associate with the extension's lines, however you cannot Re-Label the key to reflect any meaningful information. Perhaps support for a "floating"/ "phantom"/ "fictive" key should be implemented. This kind of key does not need to be tied to any extension, and will not take up any licenses.
16) On the System Dial Plan page, there is a tab to do abbreviated dialing. You can configure translation of a speed dial to an E.164 number
Good, I tested this and it works, but I dont see what the point is in having options to prefix and postfix digits in this form, what is the thinking here?
18) It is already supported. You can add a VG224 gateway.
Good.
Also, are these on the roadmap ? :
08-24-2012 03:40 AM
1) Will this support scheduling and an indicator ?
Yes, that will be supported
8)Can the system support +E.164 dialing ? Lets say I want to send +61 2 83945522 out of the SIP trunk ?
Yes, if you can initiate a call with + from say an application which can do click to dial, it is supported.
14) What about Skipping the wizard all together ?
Wizard is there for First Time System Setup. At the end of it, system is ready for basic calls. If you skip the wizard, how do u intend to do the initial setup.
Please note that you can use install spreadsheet and fill it with all inforamtion and use it for initial install, instead of manually going through the wizard.
16) Good, I tested this and it works, but I dont see what the point is in having options to prefix and postfix digits in this form, what is the thinking here?
It allows flexibility to take numbers from the middle of dial digits
DSS/BLF monitoring of different line statuses, ie Ringing, Off Hook, DND
Monitoring of Off-hook is supported. Ringing and DND are not.
Ability to customise codec types if using SIP trunks and edit SIP parameters such as the SDP headers and packetisation rates..
Ability to select different codec types is in a future release.
Sanjay
08-26-2012 10:03 PM
Sanjay,
Is there a roadmap to support branch sites in countries with different dial plans. i.e BE3000 is in Australia and a Branch Site in the USA and if so can you please advise when.
Thanks
Steve
08-27-2012 02:20 AM
That is something we are looking to support with two (or more) BE3000 networked together with distributed call control. Since there is no plan to support multiple country dial plan or dial plan per site.
Thanks
08-28-2012 05:50 PM
Sanjay,
Can we SIP trunk two BE300's today.
Regards,
Steve
08-28-2012 07:51 PM
It is not officially supported, in the sense that we have not done integration testing. We are doing integration testing and will publish a document to help with it.
Sanjay
08-28-2012 08:02 PM
Sanjay,
When do you envisage the document being released?
Steve
09-18-2012 08:03 PM
Are there any plans to support SRST in the future?
09-19-2012 07:00 AM
SRST is planned to be supported in next release, 8.6.5.
Sanjay
09-20-2012 12:32 AM
And any plans to support open dial plan for third countries?
10-09-2012 09:53 AM
Open dial plan for third countries is on the roadmap, but there is no committed timeline about when we can get to it.
Thanks
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