Cisco’s strategy with UC on UCS is to provide a carrier-grade solution to providers and large enterprises, with the following core features:
- The full range of Cisco collaboration applications
- The virtualization of the data center and the optimization of the UC applications for the UCS hardware
- Proven scalability and resilience
- The reduction of technical risk through design and the extensive end-to-end regression testing of the architecture
Cisco UC on UCS combines the two areas of strength from Cisco:
- The full suite of Cisco’s advanced, enterprise collaboration services, including messaging, mobility, presence and social media applications - to ensure that enterprise can deliver the latest collaboration features
- Cisco’s unified computer system (UCS) platform - virtualization in the data center - to deliver a more cost effective and efficient hardware platform to support large scale, multi-infrastructure, managed services
The Cisco UC on UCS solution is a particular super-set of Cisco's voice products that addresses the specific needs of service providers or enterprises who wish to either manage or host the converged network infrastructure and services.
Cisco has selected VOSS as a development partner for their UC on UCS architecture for service providers, and VOSS is tailored specifically to provide an integrated service fulfillment capability to UC on UCS.
