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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Cisco Unified Communications Manager New or Enhanced Features, by Version

Cisco Unified Communications Manager New or Enhanced Features, by Version
Features
New in Release 5.x
New in Release 6.x
New in Release 7.x
New in Release 8.x
For Business to Business Unified Communications
Support for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine
For Easier Administration, Saving You Time and Resources
Additional prepackaged alerts, monitor views, and historical reports with RTMT
Real-time and historical application performance monitoring through operating system tools and SNMP
Monitored data-collection service
Remote terminal service for off-net system monitoring and alerting
Real-time event monitoring and presentation to common syslog
Trace setting and collection utility
Browse to onboard device statistics
Multisite (cross-WAN) capability with intersite CAC
Outbound call blocking
Enhancements to out-of-band dual tone multifrequency (DTMF) signaling over IP
PSTN failover on route nonavailability
Device authentication – through embedded X.509v3 certificate in new phones
Cisco® SRST
Transcoder resource
Conference bridge resource
Topological association of shared resource devices (conference bridge, music-on- hold sources, and transcoders)
Fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security (FCAPS) enhancements to support SIP
Improved SIP trunk device identification
Calling-party normalization
E.164 with “+” dialing
Local route groups and transformation
Trusted relay point
Intelligent bridge selection
Service Advertisement Framework (SAF) – call-control discovery
Analysis manager
Product nodes inventory and grouping
Trace setting
Trace collection on demand
Scheduled trace collection
Templates for setting trace levels and trace file server
Collect/view system configuration information
Daylight savings time/zone structure
User phone add page with default, hidden, and read-only check boxes
Phone template-based phone add page
Bridged upgrade
Mobility Features, Streamlining Communications
Call divert
Dial via Office
Directed call park
Call screening
Reverse callback
Simultaneous ring time-of-day access list
Call handoff
User-to-number matching. Calls directly to mobile phones are anchored to the cluster for mobility features
Native mobile unified communications client support
Dial via Office (DVO) and least-cost routing (LCR) enhancements
Digital number identification service (DNIS) pool of direct-inward-dialing (DID) instances
LCR policy for DVO reverse and forward
LCR policy for DVO reverse and forward
Research In Motion (RIM) send call to mobile
iPhone Dial via Office Forward (DVOF) redial support
Greater Interoperability with Partners for Flexibility and Choice
SIP trunk integration with Microsoft OCS
Click to conference with IBM Sametime
Dual forking integration with Microsoft OCS
Simultaneous ring Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) dialing with Microsoft OCS
T.38 Fax interoperability with Microsoft Exchange
Active Directory 2008
SIP Early Offer
SIP Normalization and Transparency
New or Enhanced Telephony Features
Attenuation and gain adjustment per device (phone and gateway)
Automated bandwidth selection
Auto route selection (ARS)
CAC – Intercluster and intracluster
Forwarding based on internal and external calls
Forwarding out of a coverage path
Timer for maximum time in coverage path
Time of day
GSM-FR and wideband audio (proprietary 16-bit resolution; 16-kHz sampled audio)
Forced authorization codes and client matter codes (account codes)
Hunt groups – Broadcast, circular, longest idle, and linear
T.38 fax support (H.323 and SIP)
Time-of-day, day-of-week, and day-of-year routing and restrictions
Toll restriction – Dial-plan partition
Prevent trunk-to-trunk transfer
Drop conference call when originator hangs up
Require forced authorization codes
Video telephony (SCCP, H.323, and SIP)
CTI for Internet service provider (ISP) phones
Audible message waiting indication on IP phones
Call recording
Extension mobility
Extension mobility cross-cluster
Extension mobility PIN change through phone
HTTPS for phone services including EM and EMCC
Call forward all
Audible Message waiting indication
Privacy
Device mobility
Do not disturb
End User and Application User Certificate Authority Proxy Function (CAPF) for CTI
Monitoring
Device mobility changes the location-specific information when a device moves within the cluster
Programmable line keys
Secure conferencing available to all members of the conference
Silent monitoring
Join Across Lines for connecting multiple calls or conferences
Single Button Barge
Callback support for analog phones
Single-button barge-in
Join across lines
Busy-lamp-field (BLF) alert
BLF pickup
Cisco Unified IP Phone 7931G
Do not disturb – call reject
Directed call pickup
Extension mobility feature safe
Phone services provisioning
External call control (ECC) service and Cisco Unified Routing Rules Interface
CTI integration with hunt list/call pickup
CTI support for call forward
AXL enhancements: AXL interface automated to support all the database fields supported by admin interfaces
Next-generation TAPI/wave driver
Caller ID on MGCP FXO
DSN hotline feature for tactical deployments in the military/government communications system space
UCR2007 PBX1 requirements as outlined for military/government systems
MLPP support services + Cancel call waiting
MLPP on E1 PRI circuits
HTTPS phone services
Secure recording and monitoring
Annunciator support for SIP phones
Support for VPN clients on Cisco Unified IP Phone 7942G, 7945G, 7962G, 7965G, and 7975G SCCP phones
Support for Cisco Cius
Support for Cisco Unified IP Phone 6901, 6911, 6921, 6941, and 6961 models
Support for Cisco Unified IP Phone 6845, 8961, 9951, and 9971 models
Key expansion module support
USB video camera module
Native support for Whisper Coaching and Agent Greeting within Contact Center
Agent Zip Tone
Encryption to analog endpoints (Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol [SRTP])
Additional Localization (in addition to other languages supported in prior releases)
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic
Hebrew, Thai and Turkish
Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian
Additional SIP Support
SIP trunk (RFC 3261) and line side (RFC 3261-based devices)
Media Termination Point (MTP) – Support for SIP trunk and RFC 2833
Native support of SIP devices
Presence information for SIP devices
SIP trunk enhancements for external applications, such as conferencing and presence
Third-party SIP devices supporting RFC 3261
SIP line-side RFCs: RFCs 3261, 3262, 3264, 3265, 3311, 3515, and 3842
SIP trunk RFC support: RFCs 2833, 2976, 3261, 3262, 3264, 3265, 3311, 3515, 3842, 3856, and 3891
Improved SIP trunk device identification
Single-button barge-in
Join across lines
Busy-lamp-field (BLF) alert
BLF pickup
Conference chaining
Do not disturb – call reject
Cisco Unified IP Phone 7931G
Cisco Unified IP Phone Expansion Module support for 7914, 7915, 7916
Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) over SIP trunk
Early offer SIP trunk with G.729 with Media Termination Point (MTP)
SIP trunk Preferred Asserted Identity (PAI)
Domain name capacity on SIP phones (56 lines for Cisco Unified IP Phone 7902, 7912, 7942, 7962, 7905, 7945, 7965, 7975, and 7985 phones)
Added Support for Cisco Products, Enabling Broader Unified Communications
Voice gateways: Cisco VG202 and VG204 Analog Voice Gateway models
Click to dial on Cisco WebEx meeting applications
Cisco Emergency Responder Location Management user interface
Cisco Security Agent 5.2 support
Serviceability Enhancements, Enabling Greater Efficiency
Data Migration Assistant
Pre-upgrade DMA file generation
DMA – bundle pre-upgrade tasks
DMA – enhance platform config.xml
IP tables
Fresh install of Cisco Unified Communications Manager on the Cisco MCS 7828 Media Convergence Server
Alerting subsystem in Cisco Unified Communications Operating System
Clarity and consistency of alarms and events
New performance monitoring counters (external call control, Cisco SAFclient,Cisco IME link)
Changes in SNMP MIBs
AXL Serviceability API Cipher support
VMware support
SSO and SmartCard authentication
Cisco EnergyWise: Deep-sleep mode reason codes
Options ping serviceability
Troubleshooting reports for device registration and un-registration
Safari browser support
Performance Improvements
Reduce tracefile output by compression
Database replication improvements
Media Support
Codec support for G.711, G.722, G.722.1, G.723.1, G.728, G.729A/B, and GSMEFR
Video codecs: H.261, H.263, *H.264, and Cisco Wideband Video Codec (Cisco Unified Video Advantage)
HD Video Interoperability
HD video (720p/1080p) resolution interworking among Cisco Unified Communications hard phones and clients, Cisco TelePresence endpoints, and third-party HD video endpoints in standard H.264 codec
Native video endpoint support for simplified registration and provisioning, including Cisco IP Video Phone E20
End to-end solution testing, including Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (Cisco VCS)
Support for multiple H.264 payload negotiation for optimal resolution
Support for midcall video codec parameter changes and consolidation
Codec support for automated bandwidth selection: G.711 (mu-law and a-law), G.722, G.722.1, G.723.1, G.728, G.729A/B, GSM-EFR, GSM-FR, iLBC, wideband audio (proprietary 16-bit resolution; 16-kHz sampled audio), and Advanced Audio CODEC (AAC) for use with Cisco TelePresence devices
ISAC support
Codec preference order enhanced
Features for the Department of Defense (DoD)
Assured Services Session Initiation Protocol (AS-SIP), Voice over Session Initiation Protocol VoSIP/DVX G.Clear
Secure indication tone (Norway)