Cisco Unified Communications IP Telephony
December 25th, 2009 by 
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During last few months I was intensively working with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously called just Call Manager in order to obtain Cisco Unified Comminications IP Telephony (CIPT) certification. Since I am coming from the ‘voice’ field when I started to work with Cisco products it was logical to me to check what is Cisco offering in that field. And I remember that I was impressed. Six different certifications after CCNA and two possible CCVP paths. Plenty of different solutions, gateways, protocols and such was enough challenging to me. First thing that I needed is to make clear decision of which CCVP path to follow. One is covering CallManager (version 6.X called CUCM) in two parts (CIPT1 and CIPT2) and other, old one, is covering CallManager (Cisco Unified CallManager 4.X) throught one certification mixing everything with additional Gateway/Gatekeeper certification and that path is about to reach end of life on December, 31. Since I was working with web based call processing device in past I decided to go with actual Unified Communications Manager CCVP path (because CUCM is web based call processing solution as well). One of the exams on that path is Cisco Unified Communications IP Telephony Part 1 which I have passed today. There was 60 questions and you needed to score around 80% to pass it. There are single choice, multiple choice and drag and drop questions. It was not that easy at all although I was preparing for it for few months and that is normal because this is very complex solution. When it comes to CUCM I need to say that I was quite surprised of number of features that it can provide. It is very powerful, high available and redundant call processing solution which is covering advanced mobility, call coverage and other solutions in very organized, logical and intelligent way. I was preparing my certification following multiple documentation sources and by following quick reference. Note that CallManager can be installed in VMware which is a good thing, because when it comes to practicing you won’t spend lot of money to build complete testing environment. Also, please note that there are many good CCVP blogs which can help a lot and I will post few links below the text. If you need some additional information on CallManager or this certification, feel free to contact me, I will be willing to help.
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