Duration: 5 Days
This hands-on course prepares you for installing and configuring Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) v8 and v9 in global, multisite networks. You will learn how to build the system in order to provide:
- A variable-length, on-net dial plan that supports overlapping extensions that are described in Cisco's Unified Communications System Release 8.x SRND
- Remote site survivability (SRST and SRST with CME) bandwidth management
- Mobility features (such as device mobility and extension mobility) that are used in networks with multiple sites
- Survivability for remote sites during WAN failure
- Automated alternate routing (AAR) to deliver calls over the public switched telephone network (PSTN) if no bandwidth is available
With the increasing importance of globalization in the business world, this course prepares you to use local route groups and global transformations in order to simplify the dial plan and prepare for globalization without implementing E.164 dialing. After that, you will investigate deploying E.164 and explore the challenges that are presented by the North American Numbering Plan (NANP).
What You Will Learn
- Issues in multisite deployments and their solutions
- Implement a variable-length on-net dial plan without globalization supporting multiple sites with overlapping extensions
- Use v7 and v8 and 9.1 features, including local route groups and global transformations
- Transition to a globalized E.164 dial plan
- Issues with globalization in the NANP
- Implement call-processing resiliency in remote sites using SRST, MGCP fallback, and CUCM Express
- Implement CAC to manage calling and prevent oversubscription of the IP WAN
- Implement mobility features such as CUCM Device Mobility and CUCM Extension Mobility
- Explore the use of gatekeepers and SAF for intercluster routing
- Configure and implement solutions to reduce bandwidth requirements in the IP WAN
- Implement H.323 and Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) gateways
- Call Control Discovery (CCD) and the Service Advertisement Framework (SAF)
- RSVP and SIP Precondition
- Use Enterprise License Manager to manage licenses
Audience
Network professionals who install, configure, and manage Cisco Unified Communications solutions
Prerequistes
- CVOICE 8 or ICOMM
- CIPT1 v8 or CIPT1 v9
Course Outline
1. Multisite Deployments
- Identifying Issues
- Multisite Deployment Solutions
- Multisite Connections
- Multisite Deployment Dial Plan
2. Centralized Call Processing Redundancy
- Remote-Site Redundancy Options
- Cisco Unified SRST and MGCP Fallback
- CUCM Express in SRST Mode
3. Bandwidth Management and Call Admission Control
4. Features and Applications for Multisite Deployments
- Device Mobility
- Extension Mobility
5. IP Telephony Security
- Service Advertisement Framework
Course Labs
Lab 1: Topology and Deployment
Lab 2: VMware Exploration (Optional)
Lab 3: System License Setup
Lab 4:Exclusive - Use BAT to Load Elements of System Configuration
Lab 5: Exclusive - IP Phone and IP Communicator Phone Load
Lab 6: Enhanced - H.323 Gateway at HQ - Global Protocol Configuration and Incoming Calls
Lab 7: Enhanced - Gateway Lab: SIP Trunks
Lab 8: Exclusive - Variable-Length On-Net Dial Plan (Part 1)
Lab 9: Enhanced - Outgoing to PSTN at HQ via H.323 PRI
Lab 10: Exclusive - CUBE: SIP to SIP to PSTN
Lab 11: Enhanced - Line/Device - Geographic Routing
Lab 12: Exclusive - Digit Manipulation in NANP using Global Transformations
Lab 13: Enhanced - Tail End Hop Off
Lab 14: Exclusive - SRND 8.x Variable-length On-Net Dial Plan (Part 2)
Lab 15: Enhanced - SRST and CFUR
Lab 16: Enhanced - SRST using CME
Lab 17: Multisite: Regions
Lab 18: MOH and Software Conferencing
Lab 19: Hardware Conference Bridge
Lab 20: Transcoder
Lab 21: Multisite: Locations
Lab 22: Enhanced - Automated Alternate Routing
Lab 23: Enhanced - Device Mobility
Lab 24: Extension Mobility
Lab 25: Exclusive - Gatekeeper Controlled H.323 Intercluster Trunks (Optional)
Lab 26: Exclusive - Dial Plan Lab: H.323 Gatekeeper Controlled Trunk (Optional)
Lab 27: Enhanced - Service Advertisement Framework
Lab 28: Exclusive - SAF with RSVP and SIP Precondition
Lab 29: Enhanced - Line/Device - Class of Service (Optional)
Lab 30: Enhanced - European Branch Deployment
Lab 31: Enhanced - E.164 Dial Plan (Optional)
Lab 32: Gateway Lab: MGCP Global Protocol Configuration (Optional)
Lab 33: Exclusive - Gateway Lab: MGCP FXS (Optional)
Lab 34: Exclusive - Subscriber Installation from OVA (Optional)
