I have a client who I am working with on a voice solution. They have two
offices. As of now they are connected via site to site VPN for Active
Directory, CRM and mail exchange. The office here is small, only 25
employees. There is no plan for major growth any time in the foreseeable
future. Their remote office is very, very small. Only 5 employees. Both
offices will remain functional but major employee growth is not expected in
either. My question is this.is it possible for them just to do CCME in both
offices with the ability of on net calls to each other via SIP trunk or will
they need to go to Call Manager? I think Call Manager pricing will make this
deal fall through in this case but I don't want to push them to something
where they are going to loose the benefits of interconnection. The dial
plans can/will be different, each will have PSTN for local calling in their
respective areas, and separate directories will be fine because of the fact
that business in each location is technically local to that office for the
most part. Also how scalable can this solution be if say they wanted to
consolidate some of their long distance calling via the central office here
if that is even possible. Will the costs of just doing Call Manager now be
just as effective as installing/maintaining two CCME systems? Anyone have a
good doc that addresses this decision making process?



Thanks



Curt

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You don't need callmanager to make this work.  You can easily integrate
the two CCME's together.

 

The SRND for CCME covers this exact topic here:

 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products...ducts_implement
 ation_design_guide_chapter09186a00805f08
3a.html

 

Good luck with the sale!

 

-Mark

 

From: cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Curt Shaffer
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:19 PM
To: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] CCME in multiple sites

 

I have a client who I am working with on a voice solution. They have two
offices. As of now they are connected via site to site VPN for Active
Directory, CRM and mail exchange. The office here is small, only 25
employees. There is no plan for major growth any time in the foreseeable
future. Their remote office is very, very small. Only 5 employees. Both
offices will remain functional but major employee growth is not expected
in either. My question is this...is it possible for them just to do CCME
in both offices with the ability of on net calls to each other via SIP
trunk or will they need to go to Call Manager? I think Call Manager
pricing will make this deal fall through in this case but I don't want
to push them to something where they are going to loose the benefits of
interconnection. The dial plans can/will be different, each will have
PSTN for local calling in their respective areas, and separate
directories will be fine because of the fact that business in each
location is technically local to that office for the most part. Also how
scalable can this solution be if say they wanted to consolidate some of
their long distance calling via the central office here if that is even
possible. Will the costs of just doing Call Manager now be just as
effective as installing/maintaining two CCME systems? Anyone have a good
doc that addresses this decision making process?

 

Thanks

 

Curt

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