Key differences between Cisco Unity Connection and Cisco Unity

Manjit Grewal (manjit@cisco.com)

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Agenda

Business Objectives for Unity Connection System Requirements Users vs Subscribers Telephone User Interface experience End-User Desktop experience (CPCA and IMAP) Installation and configurations Supported Integrations Platform Overlays and System Capacity

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Bussines Objectives

Architecture changes to improve Reliability, Availability, Serviceability and Scalability. Remove Active Directory and 3rd party email message store dependences (i.e. (Exchange and Domino)) Simplified Installation experience (less than 2 hours) Simplified Administration model Code portability during implementation Initial Target segment: Commercial Market segment

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Product Positioning
Unity Connection 1.x
Target: Commercial Market Directory: SQL-based directory Message Store: SQL-based store VM solution with Integrated Messaging features

Unity 4.x
Target: Enterprise Market Directory: Active Directory

Message Store: Exchange or Domino

VM or UM solution -Support up to 7,500 subscribers on a single box. - Failover support - Network interop using AMIS, VPIM, Bridge or Digital Networking. -IP Fax or Cisco Fax server
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- Support up to 1,500 users

Single box solution* - No Failover support

- No Network Interop
- No fax support
* Optional Voice Rec server for additional voice rec ports
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Users vs Subscribers
Unity Connection 1.x
VM User
- Telephone access to voice messages - Unity Assistant - Call transfer rules by caller id, time of the day or calendar (busy/free)

Unity 4.x
VM Subscriber
- Telephone access to voice messages - Unity Assistant

UM Subscriber
- Telephone access to voice messages - Ability to play email messages from Telephone - VMO usage -Unity Assistant

Advanced User
-Voice enabled message access - Text-to-Speech (read, save and delete only) to Exchange emails

IMAP User
-Access to vmails from supported email clients - Limited to retrieve, save and delete (cannot reply or forward msg)

IMAP Subscriber
- Access to emails from supported email clients - All basic features (retrieve, reply, forward, etc)

Cisco Inbox User

- Access to vmails from supported browsers
- All Users can concurrently licensed to Inbox
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Cisco Inbox User

- Access to vmails from supported browsers - Limited up to 300 users on a single box
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Users vs Subscribers (cont)

Unity Connection 1.x
System Contacts
- Entity in Connection database that does not have access to voice mails. - Used Name Dialing from Speech conversation - Personal Call Transfer Rules

Unity 4.x
AMIS, Internet, Bridge or VPIM subscribers
- System Contacts and Personal Contacts are similar to AMIS, Internet, Bridge, or VPIM subscribers in Unity 4.x since they also do not have a mailbox on the server.

Personal Contacts
- Similar to system contacts but created by individual users (managed via CPCA) -Usually imported to CPCA from Exchange - Used Name Dialing from Speech conversation - Personal Call Transfer Rules

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Telephone User Interface experience

Unity Connection 1.x
TUI conversation
- Voice prompts plus DTMF commands - Experience very similar between Unity 4.x and Unity Connection - Shared code in Unity Conversation -Parity with Unity 4.0(5) with Unity Connection 1.1(1).

Unity 4.x
TUI conversation
- Voice prompts plus DTMF commands

Voice Recognition conversation

-Voice activated conversation that allow users to check vmails using voice commands. - Nuance is the 3rd party solution used

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End User desktop experience

Unity Connection 1.x
CPCA
- Everything in Unity 4.x + Cisco Unity Personal Call Transfer Rules page to CPCA

Unity 4.x
CPCA
- The look and feel is identical between Unity and Unity Connection

Unity Inbox
- The Media Master Control is now entirely written in Java - Firewall friendly - Able to run on different platforms

Unity Inbox
- Media Masters based on DCOM - Not firewall friendly - Supported on limited platforms/browsers -

IMAP support
- Allow users to retrieve voice messages from IMAP clients such as Outlook, Eudora, etc. - Limited to retrieve and delete voice messages -Scalability limited on each platform

IMAP support
-Limited to retrieve and delete voice messages

VMO support
- Only supported with Unity 4.x

VMO not supported

- Unified Clients will be supported in near future
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Installation and configurations

Unity Connection 1.x
Installation: 1-2 hours
Topology: Workgroup only Required OS: Windows 2003 only via Platform Configuration Disk (PCDs) MS patches installed via Server Update Wizard (scheduled to be released monthly) Installshield used for

Unity 4.x
Installation time: 4-8 hours
Topology: Must be integrated into AD either as DCGC or member server Required OS: Windows 2000/2003 via PCD or manual installation MS patches installed manually

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Supported Integrations
Unity Connection 1.x
Supported Integrations
- CCM and CCM Express - No dialogic voice card support - Legacy integrations via PIMG only - TSP shared btw both Unity Connection and Unity

Unity 4.x
Supported Integrations
- CCM and CCM Express

- Legacy integrations supported via Dialogic voice cards or PIMG integration.

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Platform Overlays & System Capacity

MCS Platform MSDE/SQL Voice Port (max) User Density (max) CPCA session (max)1 IMAP user (max) TTS session (max) Voice Rec session (max) MCS-7815 MSDE 24 500 500 50 12 8 MCS-7825 MSDE 24 500 500 50 12 8 MCS-7835 SQL 48 1500 1500 200 24 10 MCS-7845 SQL 72 1500 1500 750 36 12

Voice Rec Media Server (optional separate server)

NA

24

48

NA

1 Maximum concurrent sessions supported will be throttled.

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