<DIV>I'm a CCIE and CCVP. I have worked in the Cisco TSBU on both CCM and Telepresence systems I have two IP patents for the VoiP Lite protocols and have been designing and building OSS IPBXs for companies including Google going back to 2001.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm not mentioning any of that to be jerk I mentioned it to say I'm as qualified as anyone to to compare the CCM and OSS servers.</DIV>
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<DIV>The only fair way to compare the two is a list of weights features, for example if cost is your biggest feature then OSS is better, if support is your biggest feature than Cisco wins.</DIV>
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<DIV>When a customer is comparing the costly (TCO) and best supported systems in the world with hundreds of thousands installed systems for the large global companies on the planted backed by 54,000 employees and over $25b in the bank vs, a FREE system with one layer of support maybe two layers of support, the features don't even come in the evaluation in my opinion.</DIV>
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<DIV>I once asked a manager why did you buy the CCM and he said no one ever got fired for buying Cisco if anything wrong, If push the OSS and it goes I could loose my job.</DIV>
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<DIV>I would get a list of the important features, because there is no answer to your question of which is better.</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Benoit Plessis" <BENOIT@PLESSIS.INFO><BR>To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <ASTERISK-USERS@LISTS.DIGIUM.COM><BR>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco vs Asterisk<BR>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:10:50 +0200<BR><BR><BR>voip crazy a écrit :<BR>> Hello all,<BR>><BR>> A client of us, is thinking to migrate their actual PBX to a Cisco<BR>> CallManager. We want to sell him an asterisk box to complement the<BR>> Cisco PBX.<BR>> I think to use asterisk as a Voicemail server (Replazing the Cisco Unity)<BR>><BR>> Has asterisk all the functionalities to replace a CIsco Unity server?<BR>> Which functionalities Cisco Unity has than asterisk could cover?<BR>> How could asterisk complement the Cisco Call Manager funcionalities?<BR>><BR>To answer your questions, one would need to know what exactly are<BR>"all the functionalities" of a Cisco Unity server,<BR>and more specificaly, what are the needs of your client.<BR><BR>But i'm pretty sure the voip-info wiki can answer the asterisk part...<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>-- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --<BR><BR>AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona<BR>Register Now: http://www.astricon.net<BR><BR>asterisk-users mailing list<BR>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<BR>http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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