CUCME-CUE Labs – Background

Ballplayers, Inc. is a sports marketing firm with locations in New York City, NY and Baltimore, MD. You previously staged a VOIP Pilot at both locations for the firm’s CIO Fuzzy Dunlop. Fuzzy was extremely pleased with the results and received executive buy-in to purchase an IP based Voice Communications (Unified Communications, UC) solution for both offices.

Below is a high-level design of the proposed Cisco Unified Communications Express solution.

The equipment and logical set-up that I will be using for this series of labs is as follows.

WAN & PSTN:
PSTN Simulation on a Adtran Atlas 550.
Frame Relay Switch on a Cisco ISR 2811 with multiple WIC-2T cards. This router also acts as a terminal server for reverse telnet to the other devices in this lab.

Baltimore:
Cisco 2811 ISR with PVDM2-32, VIC2-2FXO, VWIC2-1MFT-T1/E1, WIC-2T, AIM-CUE, NME-16ES-1G-P
IOS Version: 12.4.22T, c2800nm-adventerprisek9_ivs_li-mz.124-22.T.bin (INT VOICE/VIDEO GK, IPIPGW, TDMIP GW AES, LI)
CME: 7.0(1), cme-124-20T1.zip
AIM Version 3.2.2
One 7962G IP Phone
Two 7942G IP Phone
Two “dummy/virtual” IP Phones

New York:
Cisco 2811 ISR with PVDM2-32, VIC2-2FXO, VWIC2-1MFT-T1/E1, WIC-2T
IOS Version: 12.4.22T, c2800nm-adventerprisek9_ivs_li-mz.124-22.T.bin (INT VOICE/VIDEO GK, IPIPGW, TDMIP GW AES, LI)
CME: 7.0(1), cme-124-20T1.zip
Cisco 3750-24PS
One 7962G IP Phone
One 7942G IP Phone
Three “dummy/virtual” IP Phones

IP Addressing:
Frame Cloud: 172.16.1.0/30
Baltimore Loopback0: 1.1.1.1/24
Baltimore Management VLAN 10: 10.1.10.1/24
Baltimore Data VLAN 11: 10.1.11.1/24
Baltimore Voice VLAN 12: 10.1.12.1/24
New York Loopback0: 2.2.2.2/24
New York Management VLAN 20: 10.1.20.1/24
New York Data VLAN 11: 10.1.21.1/24
New York Voice VLAN 12: 10.1.22.1/24
“Out of Band” network, not part of the LAB: 10.1.1.0/24

OSPF:
WAN: Area 0
Baltimore Networks: Area 1
New York Networks: Area 2

Voicemail:
Voicemail Pilot: 199
MWI On: 8000
MWI Off: 8001

The next posting will cover the initial configuration of the data and voice IP addressing, routing, VLANs, IP services, etc.