CCIE Quest

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…)

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 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…)

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…)

In one of my previous tutorials, i had used Putty Connection Manager for Console Access which helps centralizing all your consoles into a single window with easy tabbing in between different router consoles. This tutorial shows yet another way of achieving same functionality.This time, i  will setup an Access Server/Console Server/Terminal Server, whatever you name it in order to access all lab devices from a single console.

Normally, people practicing for CCIE lab (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…)