思科统一通信 - 家庭实验室组件

在7年前，我开始在全球知识教学班。你们中许多人读这个博客，想拥有自己的测试环境，所以你不要吹了生产网络播放。我投资在家庭IP电话实验室设置，所以我可以在任何我的客户的变化和测试选项不使用跟上。我将涵盖大部分在这个博客创建自己的思科IP电话环境方面的。考虑一下你是否希望思科统一通信管理器（CUCM）和/或思科统一通信管理器快车（CUCME）在你的家庭为基础的统一通信部署的中央呼叫处理设备。该装置将作为该操作的大脑。如果您打算在最终录取的思科语音CCIE，你可能会想结合这两个组件。我将涵盖在此，并按照博客。我决定买我的网络以下硬件：（2）思科7960 IP电话（1）Linksys的开关（1）康柏DL320（1）网关路由器我购买的E-湾使用了Cisco 7960个IP电话。虽然他们每个$ 300的时候，他们与AC电源线来，所以我并不需要3550-24T-PWR交换机，这超过我的预算。 The 3550-24T-PWR is a very affordable switch now that it is approaching end of life (EoL) status. The end of sale (EoS) announcement was made on the 3550 inline power switch a long time ago. If you decide to buy this switch, you should be aware that it only supports Cisco inline power (PoE) with a maximum of 10 watts per port. Many of the newer Cisco IP Phones require more than 10 watts of power. The 3560 and 3750 switch lines have some inline power options that include IEEE 802.3af inline power at up to 15.4 watts per port, but these switches are going to cost thousands of dollars. If your budget is tight, buy a cheap Linksys switch and buy power cables for your Cisco IP Phones. The 7960 is a very old phone at this point in time. I recommend buying a 7941 or 7961 phone because there are some new CUCM 6.x and 7.x features that will not work on the older 7940, 7960, 7912, 7910, and 7905 IP Phones. The 79x1, 79x2, 79x5, 7970, and 7911 phones have more resources to support more features. The older phones are referred to in the CUCM SRND as Type A phones, while the newer phones are Type B phones. The flash and DRAM on the Type B phones allow them to support the full feature set, while Type A phones have been out of DRAM since Call Manager 4.1. A used 7960 phone should cost less than $100- per phone, while the 7961 will be less than $150- per phone. The 7961 is a better investment if you can spare the extra money. I recommend buying 3 Cisco IP Phones so you can emulate a real world dial plan on one of the phones. The real world dial plan will require two call processing agents in addition to three Cisco IP Phones. Here are some examples of having two call processing agents: 1) Two CUCM clusters 2) One CUCM cluster and one CUCME platform 3) Two CUCME platforms The next blog will focus on some details of running CUCM and/or CUCME. Feel free to discuss different lab options.