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Cisco™ supports multiple media—compression standards and codecs as built—in features rather than as add—on modules. Cisco™ provides the industry’s only dual—protocol presence platform, incorporating both SIP/SIMPLE and XMPP. Cisco™ offers a full range of hosting options for partners as well as cloud—based options for customers. Cisco Unified Communications Manager™ is the heart of Cisco™ collaboration services, enabling session and call control for video, voice, messaging, mobility, instant messaging, and presence. What if you could collaborate more effectively with customers and partners on any network? With any device? From anywhere? Cost—effectively, reliably, and securely? With Cisco Unified Communications Manager™ you can. Today’s workplace challenges the collaboration environment in unprecedented ways. More mobile workers use more devices than ever before. Web and video conferencing intersect. Cisco™ is the industry leader in enterprise call and session management platforms, with more than 200,000 customers worldwide, and more than 85 million Cisco IP phones and tens of millions of soft clients deployed. Cisco Unified Communications Manager™ is the core of Cisco’s™ collaboration portfolio.

It delivers people—centric user and administrative experiences while supporting the full range of collaboration services, including video, voice, instant messaging and presence, messaging, and mobility on Cisco™ as well as third—party devices. Persistent chat high availability helps ensure that Cisco Jabber clients can seamlessly continue to use the persistent chat rooms in the event of IM and Presence Service node failure or Text Conferencing (TC) service failure. Multi—device messaging enables broadcasting of chat to all devices the user is currently logged in to and synchronizing the read progress among devices. Support for Microsoft SQL Server™ (2014, 2014 SP1, 2012 SP3) as an external database to store information from the persistent group chat, message archiver (IM compliance), and managed file transfer features. Wizard—based interdomain federation configuration for easier configuration. Ability to back up users’ contacts automatically and import or export nonpresence contacts through bulk administration (BAT). Addition of logging level controls to improve the troubleshooting experience. Dedicated remote device enables Cisco Spark hybrid call service with no incremental licensing impact for users with at least UCL Enhanced licensing.

Unified Communications Applications

Promote collaboration anywhere. Stay connected and productive with messaging, presence, enterprise social, and application development. Comprehensive and interactive collaboration—Cisco™ unified communications applications provide a comprehensive and contextual environment that puts people, not technology, at the center of collaboration. You can use this industry—leading platform and its productivity tools from any location on any device. Accelerate innovation and improve decision—making by helping users communicate more securely and effectively inside and outside your organization. Connecting email, instant messaging, conferencing, presence, voice services, and voicemail. Providing the same tools and integrated collaborative experience across devices. This device—independent approach can be deployed on a PC, Apple iPhone™ or iPad™, Android™ smartphone, or other device. The Cisco Collaboration Architecture™ defines a set of core collaboration services that you can use for your specific IT roadmap. With its flexible consumption models, you can deploy solutions as a combination of on—premises and cloud—based services that scale as required. The applications in the Cisco Collaboration™ portfolio are based on this open, interoperable architecture. They help enable a broad range of solutions that match your current and future business needs and priorities.

Unified Communications Gateways

Use Cisco™ gateways for any—to—any collaboration. Cisco Unified Communications™ gateways help enable anytime, anywhere collaboration to anyone on any device and provide investment protection for existing technology deployments. Cisco gateways offer solutions for any size business or location. Cisco Expressway™ supports simple, more secure, rich media collaboration outside the enterprise firewall. Extends your reach with B2B, B2C, and remote and mobile worker collaboration. Designed for Cisco Unified Communications Manager™ and Business Edition 6000™ deployments. Cisco Unified Border Element™ provides session border control for voice and video SIP trunk deployments. Supports centralized, distributed, and hybrid SIP trunking deployments. Works with Cisco™ products, third—party PBXs, and service providers. Cisco TelePresence™ video communication server facilitates highly secure telepresence communications throughout an enterprise. Supports highly scalable deployments for up to 100,000 users. Supports Cisco WebEx™—enabled telepresence. Cisco VG™ series gateways support analog devices in Cisco and third—party unified communications deployments.

Mid–Sized Solutions

Collaboration solutions at the right size and price. For growing businesses, having intimate customer relationships and being able to respond quickly and cost—effectively to changing needs are the hallmarks of success. To stay ahead of the competition, your teams and stakeholders need to communicate effectively and act decisively. Your collaboration tools need to be easy to use and deliver exceptional results. But with limited IT resources, keeping up with the latest innovations in communications and collaboration technology can seem a daunting task. Cisco™ can help you take collaboration to the next level with right—sized, right—priced solutions that are easy to use, manage, and deploy. Empower employees, customers, and partners to collaborate simply and intuitively anywhere, on any device—from the browser to the boardroom. Succeed at every stage of your collaboration journey with essential services that help you to plan, deploy, and support your investments. With high—definition video, voice, content sharing, messaging, and chat, our solutions help you to improve the quality and speed of decisions. Increase employee engagement, mobility, and productivity. Reduce workplace, travel, and IT operations related costs. Enhance customer relationships.

Features And Benefits

Reduce total cost of IT ownership. Adapt more flexibly to change by simplifying technology. Simplify communications, accelerate decision—making, and unlock innovation. Accelerate generation of ideas to support new products, process improvement, and growth. Broad codec support. Cisco supports multiple media—compression standards and codecs as built—in features rather than as add—on modules. Dual—protocol support—Cisco™ provides the industry’s only dual—protocol presence platform, incorporating both SIP/SIMPLE and XMPP. Hosted and cloud—Cisco™ offers a full range of hosting options for partners as well as cloud—based options for customers. Cost and efficiency improvements can achieve only so much. Eventually, you need to identify new sources of revenue and market share. Improve collaboration to accelerate the development of ideas to support innovation, new products, process improvements, and growth. Newer forms of interaction have the potential to foster greater levels of collaboration. Improve individual and collective performance, leading to innovation that creates competitive advantage.