Powerful IP Call-Processing Capabilities

Cisco Unified Communications Manager is an enterprise-class IP telephony call-processing system that provides traditional telephony features as well as advanced capabilities, such as mobility, presence, preference, and rich conferencing services. This powerful call processing solution can help:

Simplify your voice systems by replacing old PBX (private branch exchange) and key systems with unified communications, you can cut costs and dramatically streamline provisioning and maintenance.
Build productivity with feature-rich unified communications that help workers spend less time chasing people, and more time being productive.
Enable mobility with software that has embedded unified mobility capabilities so mobile workers can remain productive wherever they are.
Improve collaboration with a click; start an IM session, initiate a phone call, and establish a videoconferencing call more easily.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager creates a unified workspace that supports a full range of communications features and applications with a solution that is highly:

Scalable: Each Cisco Unified Communications Manager cluster can support up to 30,000 users.
Distributable: For scalability, redundancy, and load balancing.
Available: Support business continuity and improve collaboration with high availability that provides a foundation for multiple levels of server redundancy and survivability.

Cisco Unified Communications delivers a high quality, highly secure experience across any workspace. This helps your company:

Shorten sales and customer service cycles
Reduce time-to-market
Adapt to market changes faster
Encourage innovation

Cisco Communications Manager 8.0

Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8.0 is the IP telephony call-processing component of the Cisco Unified Communications solution. It offers a variety of benefits, as it:

Improves mobility, through extension mobility cross-cluster, plus HTTPS for encrypted user name and PIN transmission
Reduces deployment time, realizes quicker ROI, lowers ongoing operational costs, and improves business continuity
Provides a dynamic, flexible, network-based call admission control engine for voice and video
Improves cost savings and collaboration by extending Unified Communications capabilities outside the organization

Cisco Communications Manager 7.0

Features:

Delivers time-of-day access feature for Cisco Unified Mobility
Helps reduce operational costs by optimizing video bridge resources through intelligent selection
Eases creation of dial plans using local route groups and transformation patterns
Supports increased security on call admission control and quality of service
Enhances Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) support of additional features and supports G.729 on SIP trunks
Business-grade voice communications and enhanced user experience are delivered thorough the cost-effective new Cisco Unified IP phone 6900 Series

Cisco Communications Manager 6.0

Features:

Provides the call-processing capabilities for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Business Edition, a simplified, single-server solution designed for medium-sized businesses
Integrates Cisco Unified Mobility into Cisco Unified Communications Manager software, making access to mobility features easier and more cost-effective
Supports dual-mode devices, enhancing the productivity of employees who need to move between campus wireless and external cellular network environments
Supports the medium-sized business- and retail-friendly, multibutton Cisco Unified IP Phone 7931G
Supports a new suite of Cisco Unified IP Phones: Cisco Unified IP Phone 7975G, 7965G, 7945G, 7962G, and 7942G and the Cisco Unified SIP Phone 3911

Cisco Communications Manager 5.0

Features:

Line-side Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) support for SIP devices and applications
SIP trunk-side enhancements
Support for presence-based applications, including Cisco Unified Personal Communicator and Cisco IP Phone Messenger
Appliance model implementation
Deployment and administration enhancements through support for a Linux-based appliance model implementation
Networking enhancements, including Cisco RSVP Agent support for more efficient use of networks

Cisco Unified Communications Manager 5.1 offers additional localization and enhanced organizational productivity. Features include:

Support for Arabic language
Increase in scalability of Cisco 7815 Media Convergence Servers to support a maximum of 500 devices
Enhanced ability to immediately divert an incoming call or an in-progress call to voicemail

The latter feature now also applies to transferred calls. Users can forward calls that have been transferred to them either to their own voicemail or to the voicemail of the original transferring party.