CCIE Quest

Recently, While searching on Cisco Unified Mobility Advantage (CUMA) and Cisco Unified Mobilitiy Client (CUMC) for my Apple iPhone, I came across a pretty comprehensive and detailed guide which covers setting up CUMA Server and integrating it during Post-install to many associated application servers e.g Microsoft Active Directory , Exchange Server , CUPS , CUCM , Cisco Unity Connection etc.Thought it might be useful to many of Blog readers as i have been asked few times for (more…)

Phone Proxy is a superset of TLS proxy where not only signaling but also media is secured for communication.It supports a Cisco UCM cluster in mixed mode or nonsecure mode.Configuration that i will show here will have UCM cluster in non-secure mode.TLS/SRTP will be terminated on ASA proxy server and TCP/RTP will be communicated between ASA and CUCM.You must have atleast ASA Code 8.0(4) although ASA 8.2 release is recommended as it supports MTA for each interface.Here,i will (more…)

Since Cisco has announced upcoming changes to CCIE Voice Lab Exam and Lab Exam Blueprint 3.0 has been published, Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.0 has become focus of attention for many.

CUCM 7.x is not much different from 5.x and 6.x versions and can be installed natively in VMWare for lab purposes.Cisco has done a great deal in making CUCM 7.x installation totally hassle free.Its a (more…)

This tutorial will help those who are having problems with insufficient flash disk capacity in Cisco Call Manager Express (CUCME) configurations. In order to copy files e.g Music-on-hold files, GUI  files, Basic-ACD scripts and prompts to your flash, you need to have considerable amount of disk space to house all stuff there.

Fortunately, you can increase PMCIA (more…)

This video tutorial demonstrates registration of Third-Party SIP devices to Cisco Unified Communication Manager(CUCM ) 5/6. In Cisco Call Manager 4.1(3) and older versions, only SIP trunks were supported between Call manager and SIP gateways/Proxy Servers.Beginning with Cisco Unified Communication Manager 5.x , Cisco included native support for SIP based IP phones/SoftPhones.

SIP(Session Initiation Protocol) is a well-known and widely deployed industry-standard protocol in IP Telephony today.This tutorial will help you (more…)