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Multi-vendor Telephony articles within Legacy Services.

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New ShoreTel ECC and CISCO UCCX feature - Text Messaging?

Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
We continue to focus on call center strategies that optimize the caller experience by reducing or eliminating wait time. Now clearly, you have to be in a business that actually cares about customers, we don’t expect the IRS will be implementing…
November 20, 2012
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3CX telephone administration screen

Compare ShoreTel and 3CX - Part 1 License Strategy

Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony
The trend in the Unified Communications industry is to charge a "per seat" license for access to VoIP Business Phone Solutions.  In large part a legacy "flat tax"  from the old TDM world, phone system suppliers continue to license based on…
October 6, 2012
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ShoreTel and Cisco comparison logos

Compare ShoretTel and CISCO Part 3 – Users and phones

Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
All of the architecture "geek speak"  aside, CISCO and ShoreTel have fundamental "cultural" differences that defines their approach to the entities of  a "phone" and  a "user".    Simply stated in the ShoreTel world a phone can not exist…
May 19, 2012
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Compare ShoreTel & CISCO Part 2 – System Admin Portal

Compare ShoreTel & CISCO Part 2 - System Admin Portal

Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
All telephone systems have to deal with the same key architectural  issues regardless of who manufactured the equipment.   All phone systems have to provide for the definition of a system "dial plan"; trunk groups, call flow options, phone…
May 15, 2012
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Compare ShoreTel (SHOR) and CISCO (CSCO) Unified Communications Manager

Compare ShoreTel (SHOR) and CISCO (CSCO) Overview Part 1

Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
As both a ShoreTel Certified VoIP Engineer and a CISCO CCVP I  have been working exclusively in VoIP since 1998.   For this reason,  one of the questions that is most asked of me is which is a better solution: ShoreTel and CISCO?   Since…
August 5, 2011
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Compare ShoreTel (SHOR) and CISCO (CSCO) Unified Communications Manager

ShorTel Tech Tip – Bulk Sound File Converter for WAV to ShoreTel format or CISCO format!

Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
We have previously posted a blog on the creation of ShoreTel WAV files using the Call Manager the desired result.  This is clearly a readily available tool and can reliably be used for small Automated Attendant greetings and to meet other WAV…
March 27, 2011
/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/drvoip-logo-18.webp 0 0 Peter /wp-content/uploads/2026/10/drvoip-logo-18.webp Peter2011-03-27 12:12:182011-03-27 12:12:18ShorTel Tech Tip – Bulk Sound File Converter for WAV to ShoreTel format or CISCO format!
Compare ShoreTel (SHOR) and CISCO (CSCO) Unified Communications Manager

Virtualizing your ShoreTel or CISCO VoIP Deployment!

Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
  Virtualization is an emerging area that is making a significant change in enterprise infrastructure planning, implementation and operation.  The pressure comes from several areas.  First, the operating costs of even a small business can…
November 8, 2010
/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/drvoip-logo-18.webp 0 0 Peter /wp-content/uploads/2026/10/drvoip-logo-18.webp Peter2010-11-08 12:48:292010-11-08 12:48:29Virtualizing your ShoreTel or CISCO VoIP Deployment!
Compare ShoreTel (SHOR) and CISCO (CSCO) Unified Communications Manager

ShoreTel QOS on CISCO Switches?

Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
Quality of Service or QOS remains an interesting and challenging configuration for most engineers deploying VoIP solutions.   Generally you are concerned about QOS on both your Local Area network (LAN) and your Wide Area Network (WAN).    …
September 30, 2010
/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/drvoip-logo-18.webp 0 0 Peter /wp-content/uploads/2026/10/drvoip-logo-18.webp Peter2010-09-30 14:32:282010-09-30 14:32:28ShoreTel QOS on CISCO Switches?
Compare ShoreTel (SHOR) and CISCO (CSCO) Unified Communications Manager

Extension Number, Phone Device, or User?

Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
Is a phone, an Extension Number (e.g. DN) and a User the same entity?   Does the User define the Extension number?  Does the User define the Phone?   What is the difference and why would you care?   You care when you have to separate…
September 6, 2010
/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/drvoip-logo-18.webp 0 0 Peter /wp-content/uploads/2026/10/drvoip-logo-18.webp Peter2010-09-06 14:13:002010-09-06 14:13:00Extension Number, Phone Device, or User?
Compare ShoreTel (SHOR) and CISCO (CSCO) Unified Communications Manager

How does a ShoreTel SBS compare to a CISCO CCME in $?

Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
I am always being asked to compare ShoreTel and CISCO in one or another area.    CISCO has a family of products that range from the UC500 through the CCME and on to the full blown Unified Communications Call Manager.    One way to compare…
June 8, 2009
/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/drvoip-logo-18.webp 0 0 Peter /wp-content/uploads/2026/10/drvoip-logo-18.webp Peter2009-06-08 14:01:392009-06-08 14:01:39How does a ShoreTel SBS compare to a CISCO CCME in $?
Compare ShoreTel (SHOR) and CISCO (CSCO) Unified Communications Manager

SIP Softphone on Asterisk, CISCO and ShoreTel

Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
Configuring SIP extensions has become one of the most requested support questions we receive. Asterisk, CISCO and ShoreTel all support SIP extensions. Candidly, SIP is an excellent protocol and one that most IT professionals are already familiar…
April 17, 2009
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