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Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook

By : Tanner Ezell
Book Image

Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook

By: Tanner Ezell

Overview of this book

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) is a software-based call-processing system developed by Cisco Systems. CUCM tracks all active VoIP network components; these include phones, gateways, conference bridges, transcoding resources, and voicemail boxes among others. This scalable, distributable, highly-available enterprise-class system delivers voice, video, mobility, and presence services. It connects up to 30,000 users of IP phones, media processing devices, VoIP gateways, mobile devices, and multimedia applications. With this cookbook you will learn all the important aspects of administering Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook is filled with many advanced recipes to effectively and efficiently configure and manage Cisco Unified Communications Manager. This book covers everything an administrator needs during and after Cisco Unified Communications Manager implementation. This practical cookbook contains detailed step-by-step instructions with clear and informative screenshots that cover all the important and advanced aspects of administering Cisco Unified Communications Manager. The book starts with introducing Call Routing and E.164. It then covers configuration and design information for the various call admission control technologies and Media Resources. The book also dives deep into troubleshooting, upgrades, disaster recovery, user management and much more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Implementing regions for call admission control


Regions play an important role in location-based call admission control; they specify the codec relationships between regions allowing us to choose quality or quantity of calls.

How to do it...

To configure regions for call admission control, perform the following:

  1. Add a new region (System | Region)

  2. Click Add New to add a new region.

  3. Specify a name, for example, that shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Click Save.

  5. Repeat this process for each region to be created.

  6. Next, configure region relationships between one another and within it.

  7. On the region configuration page under Modify Relationship to other Regions, select a region.

    Tip

    You can select multiple regions at once to save time!

  8. Select a bitrate from the Maximum Audio Bit Rate drop-down. This will be applied to calls between the region we are configuring and the ones we selected.

  9. For Max Video Call Bit Rate you may choose to either:

    • Specify a particular bandwidth

    • Specify none to prevent video calls

    • Use...