Singlewire Announces Conference Call Plugin for InformaCast

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Singlewire Software, developer of innovative voice applications centered around secure, fast, and reliable mass notification, announced the release of the new Conference Call plugin for InformaCast. The Conference Call plugin allows a user to automatically initiate a conference call session with a pre-determined group of phones. For example, when an emergency is declared and an [...]

Cisco Unity Connection Single Inbox with Exchange 2003 Forms Based Authentication

Since the introduction of Unity Connection’s single inbox features, we have seen a more than a few customers switch from Unity to Unity Connection due to undisclosed reasons Things do work great and I have seen customers appreciate the move to Unity Connection but there is a little gotcha if the customer is using Exchange [...]

ZOOM CallREC is up and running

This will just be a quick update on the home lab since I have been very busy with customer deployments. Home lab is coming along great and my CUCM 8.6 is up and running along with Unity Connection, UCCX, CUPS, Exchange 2010 and Active Directory. I just received my NFR ZOOM CallREC software and I [...]

CUBE Issues with Multiple Registrars and IOS 15.1x

As you all know I have been setting up my home lab over the last few weeks and spent a couple of evenings with SIP. I have two different SIP trunks – one for residential and one for lab testing purpose. After I tested them individually with my 12.4 IOS, I started wondering why not [...]

Vidyo beefs up Telepresence Portfolio

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Vidyo has beefed up its telepresence portfolio with a solution called VidyoPanorama that delivers 1080p HD video at 60fps (frames per second), supporting multiple screens. The company estimates its new video communications system costs are up to 90% less than competing telepresence alternatives. Readers may recall that Vidyo also uses a software-based, switched video based [...]

Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router to Enable Advanced Video

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Cisco announced today that Cox Communications will deploy the Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series (ASR 9000) as the foundation of its next-generation nationwide Internet Protocol (IP) network, which will play a critical role in enabling advanced new video and online entertainment and communication services to Cox’s nationwide customer base. Cisco will also host a [...]

Cisco Unified Communications System Release 8.6 Updates

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While I am busy building my home lab with 8.5, Cisco is busy announcing 8.6 which is bringing out a ton of mouth watering features. At this point I am thinking about joining the Beta program and updating the Voice lab to 8.6 so I can play around with these latest features / services. Video: [...]

Cisco UCM 8.5 and Unity Connection 8.5 Installed on ESXi 4.1

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So as of last night I have my home lab chugging along and I was able to install Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8.5, Cisco Unity Connection 8.5 and Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 for Active Directory. I still have a long way to go to finish up the lab but this is all for now. I [...]

Cisco UC Home Lab Build-up

So after a few weeks my home lab is finally moving in the right direction. I installed VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1 today and will be install Windows 2008 R2 Server tonight. Plan is to install 3 Windows R2 VMs that will cover my Active Directory, Exchange 2010 and a server to install various applications [...]

Dell PowerEdge T410 For Home Voice Lab Has Arrived

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Take a look at what UPS brought to me yesterday? That’s right my new Dell PowerEdge T410 is here for the much awaited Home Voice Lab. I did not order everything from Dell this weekend I am getting ready to install 24GB RAM, (4) 750GB HDDs using a PERC6/i Integrated SAS RAID Controller Card running RAID5 [...]