Cisco Cisco Unified Operations Manager 8.0 Leaflet
Customer Case Study
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Cisco IT has a very large global unified
communications deployment, having more than
85,000 IP phones.
communications deployment, having more than
85,000 IP phones.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
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Monitoring the large multi-site, multi-cluster
network
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Helping ensure that reliability and service
quality goals are met
SOLUTION
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Cisco Unified Operations Manager
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Cisco Unified Service Monitor
BUSINESS RESULTS
Using the network management solution, Cisco IT
measures and meets its stringent reliability and
service availability goals on an ongoing basis and
is able to:
measures and meets its stringent reliability and
service availability goals on an ongoing basis and
is able to:
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Proactively identify voice design and
implementation problems
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Reduce recovery time
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Monitor and improve unified communications
system reliability, availability, and end user
experience on a continual basis
experience on a continual basis
Cisco IT Case Study
Achieving Reliability and Service Quality Using the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite
Business Challenge
To address the challenges of proactively monitoring the very large Cisco
Unified Communications global network and to achieve reliability and
service quality goals, Cisco IT turned to the Cisco Unified
Communications Management Suite. The Cisco
®
internal Unified
Communications network is a very large global deployment, having
more than 85,000 IP phones spread over six continents.
Cisco IT faced many challenges in managing the large unified
communications environment, including monitoring the large, multi-site,
multi-cluster network and helping ensure that reliability and service
quality goals were met. To keep pace with a very aggressive
deployment schedule, they had to go in a few weeks from an initial
scenario of not having any Cisco network management applications to
one in which they had extensive proactive management and service
quality monitoring capabilities.
Being in new and uncharted territory in the initial stages, the Cisco IT
team first had the challenge of defining methodologies and metrics for
measuring and monitoring the key components of service quality:
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Availability (Can I pick up the phone and get dial tone? Does my call connect? Can I leave and retrieve
voicemail?)
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Performance (How is the voice quality? Did I get disconnected mid-call? How does the voicemail sound?
How fast is the voicemail prompt?)
The team also had the additional challenge of figuring out approaches, techniques, and tests to:
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Detect configuration issues
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Reduce recovery time in the event of a service failure
Network management design and technical architecture work had to be done and then implemented to help ensure
that stringent goals related to application responsiveness and service availability were met.
The Cisco IT team had a critical need to gain visibility into the global unified communications network status, voice
quality, and trends, and to accurately measure and manage end user experience service levels. Furthermore, they
were also in need of troubleshooting capabilities to aid in rapid problem resolution.
“We could not have achieved, or even measured, our reliability,
availability, and end user experience targets for our global 85,000 IP
phone deployment without Cisco Unified Communications Management
Suite products.”
availability, and end user experience targets for our global 85,000 IP
phone deployment without Cisco Unified Communications Management
Suite products.”
—Jon Heaton, Cisco IT