思科Unity系列概述

Cisco Unity是一个功能丰富的语音邮件解决方案，适用于统一通信架构。除了语音邮件，思科Unity产品家族还提供了自动助理、集成消息或统一消息(UM)的能力，这取决于Unity产品。思科Unity产品系列有三种不同的形式:Unity Express、Unity Connections或Cisco Unity。本博客将介绍这三种不同产品的一些不同之处。Unity Express仅为个别办公室提供语音邮件，而Unity Connections为大小企业提供语音邮件和集成消息。思科Unity为大中型企业提供语音邮件、集成消息和统一消息。本系列博客将专注于Cisco Unity和Unity连接平台，同时也会提到Cisco Unity Express。思科统一连接和思科统一允许电子邮件客户端访问语音邮件作为。wav文件附件使用IMAP连接到运行在思科统一上的Exchange服务器(集成消息传递)。Cisco Unity一直以来都提供更紧密的电子邮件集成，包括view mail for Outlook (VMO)或view mail for Notes (VMN)客户端应用程序，但这些应用程序也可用于Cisco Unity Connections 7.0版本。思科统一和思科统一连接是应用服务器，可以安装在思科为思科统一通信管理器销售的同一台媒体聚合服务器(MCS)上。 The application relies on an information store (IS) database to maintain all configuration data related to the subscribers (users), call handlers (automated attendant), and other system attributes. The voicemail messages are stored in the message store (MS) database. The Cisco Unity Connections product uses the same appliance server model as CUCM (Linux and IBM Informix Database server [IDS]). The information and message stores of Cisco Unity Connections are both stored on the same IDS database. Cisco Unity Express (CUE) uses a proprietary Cisco database on the hard drive of a CUE network module for both the information and message store. Cisco Unity uses a Microsoft SQL server or Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine (MSDE) database as the information store and a Microsoft Exchange or IBM Domino server as the message store. MSDE can be used for systems with less than 32 users. The message store for Unity can be on the same Windows 2003 server as Unity (onbox) or a separate server (offbox). Cisco Unity is built to leverage unified messaging and the existing E-Mail based messaging infrastructure. The Cisco Unity 5.0 message store can be Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, or 2007. Read the Unity 5 release notes related to using Microsoft Exchange 2007 as a mailbox store. There are some serious limitations with Unity 5.0 and Exchange 2007. The Exchange 2007 support in Unity 7.0 is better than Unity 5.0. All Cisco Unity platforms use the concept of ports to accept calls to or from the Cisco Unity system. A port in Cisco Unity is not a physical analog voice port or a logical B channel in a PRI, but an logical IP session. The number of ports used in the system is licensed by the user, but the maximum number of ports available to the system is based on the Unity product, version, and hardware platform on which it is installed. Cisco Unity 7.0 supports up to 200 ports per server, while Cisco Unity Connection supports 144 ports, and Unity Express supports up to 24 ports. Cisco Unity 7.0 and Unity Connection 7.0 scale up to 10,000 voicemail users per server. We’ll continue the Cisco Unity Conversation in the next blog.