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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 location-based call admission control


Location-based call admission control provides a mechanism for controlling the number of calls allowed between two locations. Controlling the number of calls between locations can prevent over saturating IP WAN links and degrading overall call quality.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe successfully, it is important to have a list of locations and the available bandwidth for calls and videos per location.

How to do it...

To implement location-based call admission control, perform the following:

  1. Add a new Location for each location as appropriate (System | Location).

  2. Click Add New to add a new location.

  3. Type in an appropriate name.

  4. Specify the Audio Bandwidth available to the location or select Unlimited.

  5. Specify the Video Bandwidth available to the location, or select either Unlimited or None depending on the environment. The given setting is shown in the following screenshot:

  6. Click Save.

  7. Repeat this process for each location to be added.

  8. Configure...