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With the Skype for sip beta program now in open public domain , there are open integration options available for Cisco Routers esp. CUCME as well as CUCM.Both SIP Digest Authentication as well as IP authentication are supported. For those businesses eager to test integration , you can test service by setting up a Business control Panel (BCP) account.You can avail upto 300 simultaneous voice channels if you are running a large business. Also, if you already have peering with a SIP Service Provider (See Tutorials :GNS3:How to Setup CME SIP trunk to VOIP SIP Service Provider ) , you can integrate another CUCME to skype for sip and integrate both solutions as Skype for sip offers support for (more…)

Extension Mobility was introduced to CUCME beginning with release 4.2 .With Later Releases e.g 4.3 and beyond, some enhanced features were added e.g the ability to use the phone user interface to configure personal speed dials directly on an EM phone . Some of feature enhancements include :

• Configurable Automatic Logout
• Automatic Clear Call History
• Privacy on an Extension Mobility Phone

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If you have gone through all previous parts of this tutorial, you have  learned to configure CUCME for SIP trunk support to a VOIP SIP Internet Service Provider (ITSP) ,configuring  Inbound and outbound dial peers for call routing as well as configuring and supporting IP phones(e.g.CIPC).This is the last part of tutorial in which you will configure a SIP endpoint for same purpose.I will use (more…)

In last 2 tutorials , I configured CUCME for basic sip trunk setup to a VOIP Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) as well as configured advanced configuration for inbound and outbound dial-peer setup and call processing.In this tutorial, I will be setting up Cisco IP Communicator (CIPC) for making/receiving calls to/from SIP VOIP Service Provider.

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In previous tutorial GNS3:How to Setup CME SIP trunk to VOIP SIP Service Provider – Part 1, my focus was to register CUCME as a SIP User Agent Client(UAC) to a Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP). In this tutorial, I will show you the steps needed to setup CUCME for routing VOIP calls outbound as well as inbound call setup. This tutorial will also cover some of common mistakes and steps that cause VOIP calls to fail over the SIP trunk primarily the (more…)

This tutorial will cover any additional tasks to my previous tutorial “Easy approach for Configuring and Setting up Cisco Unity Express” . Here, i will show you the steps needed in order to configure , manage and troubleshoot Voice Profile for Internet Messaging (VPIM) networking between CUE to other Voice Mail Systems such as Unity or even CUE itself. For timebeing,I will cover (more…)