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Product Overview
Key Features and Benefits
Specifications
Ordering Information

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Cisco MCS-7830 — Media Convergence Server

Product Overview

The Cisco Media Convergence Server 7830 (MCS-7830) is a high-availability server platform for Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data). The MCS-7830 is a member of the MCS-7800 series server family, which also includes the cost-effective MCS-7820 and the Cisco AVVID IP telephony starter kits. With Cisco CallManager software preinstalled in this fault-tolerant server, the wide-scale deployment of industry-leading Cisco IP telephony solutions has never been easier. The Cisco MCS-7830 is an integral part of a complete, scalable architecture for a new generation of high-quality IP voice solutions that run on the enterprise data network. The MCS-7830 delivers the high performance and availability demanded by today`s enterprise networks and represents a turnkey solution that is easy to deploy and highly cost-effective.

The Cisco Unified Open Network Exchange (Cisco uOne), an integral part of Cisco AVVID, is a voice and unified-messaging application. The first commercially available version of Cisco uOne 4.1E—Entry Edition—runs on the Cisco Media Convergence Server 7830 (MCS-7830) and is available for the North American market.

Key Features and Benefits

The MCS-7830 includes Intel`s next-generation Pentium III, delivers 500 MHz performance, and ships with 256 MB of 100 MHz registered SDRAM, extending the high performance you will require to roll out current and future Cisco AVVID applications. Hardware RAID support for dual 9.1 GB (10,000 rpm) Ultra2 small computer serial interface (SCSI) hot-plug hard drives improves overall system performance. All this power is delivered in a space-saving rack-mountable form factor (5U). The MCS-7830 is intended to run only Cisco CallManager software. Other third-party applications are not supported.

Availability, or the percentage of time that a system is available to provide service, was assumed in old world networks. Availability is a key requirement in the New World networks that Cisco is building today. The high-availability design of the MCS-7830 will deliver a robust platform for your mission-critical Cisco AVVID applications. The MCS-7830 comes standard with a redundant hot-plug power supply and two redundant 9.1 GB SCSI hot-plug hard drives running RAID-1 disk mirroring to ensure maximum availability. A remote management board (RMB) is also included to provide a robust, fail-safe solution for server management. The RMB operation is fully independent from the host hardware (self-contained processor, memory, and battery), host operation system, and network connection. This high level of independence ensures that regardless of server state, administrators and the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineers have access to the MCS-7830 from virtually anywhere.

Whether you start your Cisco IP telephony network with five telephones or hundreds, the MCS-7830 server seamlessly allows you to grow your network at your pace. Cisco CallManager may be installed to one or more MCS-7830 servers. In multiserver environments, the Cisco CallManagers are logically coupled through an H.323 signaling interface. Individual MCS-7830s may be backed up by a duplicate, hot-standby MCS-7830, providing complete call-processing redundancy. The Cisco CallManager provides redundancy through automated fail-over of gateways and phones to secondary MCS-7830s in the event of primary server failure. In future releases of Cisco CallManager, you will be able to add additional MCS-7800 series servers to scale your IP telephony solution significantly.

The Cisco CallManager is the call-processing software component of the Cisco AVVID network. Cisco CallManager software features a suite of integrated voice applications that perform voice conferencing, manual Web attendant console, click-to-call, and other functions. In addition, a Windows Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) is available for third-party applications development. The salient feature of all these basic voice applications is that no additional voice-processing hardware is required.

Supplementary and enhanced services such as hold, transfer, forward, conference, multiple line appearances, automatic route selection, speed dial, last-number redial, and other features are extended by Cisco CallManager to IP phones and gateways.

Because Cisco CallManager is a software application, enhancing Cisco CallManager is a matter of upgrading software, thereby avoiding expensive hardware upgrade costs. Further, Cisco CallManager configuration allows all phones, gateways, and applications to be distributed across a routable IP network, providing a single, distributed, virtual telephony network.

For more information on the features and benefits of Cisco CallManager, please visit:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mkt/iptel/callmgr/prodlit/callm_ds.htm

Cisco uOne 4.1E communicates over LANs and WANs using voice over IP (VoIP). The voice-messaging industry is evolving from a proprietary, closed, high-cost infrastructure to an open, distributed, standards-based design with correspondingly better price/performance ratios. Cisco Systems and the Cisco uOne application are at the forefront of this evolution. The delivery of robust voice messaging over IP reduces the overall infrastructure spending, lowers capital and operational costs, and opens the environment to explosive innovation in telephony applications.

The Cisco uOne 4.1E Entry Edition is available with voice mail for the Cisco MCS-7830 platform. Cisco uOne 4.1E will support up to 100 mailboxes with four simultaneous sessions. An upgrade is available at an extra charge for four additional simultaneous sessions.

For more information on the features and benefits of Cisco uOne Entry Edition, please visit:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mkt/iptel/prodlit/uone_ds.htm

Specifications

• Intel Pentium III 500 MHz processor

• 512 kB second-level Error-Correcting Code (ECC) cache

• 256 MB 100 MHz ECC SDRAM memory

• 10/100BaseTX protocol control information unshielded twisted-pair (PCI UTP) controller (embedded) on the PCI local bus

• Integrated dual-channel wide Ultra SCSI-3 controller

• Dual 9.1 GB Ultra SCSI hot-plug drives

• 1.44 MB floppy disk

• Preinstalled high-speed IDE CD-ROM drive

• Hot-plug redundant power supply

• Integrated 1024 x 768, 256-color, noninterlaced on PCI local bus, 1 MB video memory

• 5U rack height, ships with sliding rails and cable management

• Automatic Server Recovery-2 (ASR-2)

• Integrated remote console (IRC)

• Hardware remote console

• Full remote server reboot capability

• Reset and failure sequence replay

• Host hardware independent

• Serial port for modem connection

• Battery backup

• Power-on password

• Hot-plug keyboard password

• Diskette drive control

• Diskette boot control

• QuickLock, network server mode

• Parallel and serial interface control

• Administrator`s password

• Disk configuration lock

• Cisco CallManager

• Cisco CallManager database

• Cisco CallManager Administration software (Web-browsable application provides graphical user interface to Cisco CallManager database)

• Cisco ConferenceBridge (basic voice-conferencing application)

• Cisco ActivePhoneBook (click to call, browsable directory service)

• Cisco Web Attendant Console (software-only, Web-browsable manual attendant console)

• Windows TAPI Version 2.1 service provider interface

• Microsoft Windows NT Server

• Microsoft Windows NT Resource Kit

• Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) (Web server for remote access to Cisco CallManager database)

• Ataman TCP remote logon services

• Carbon-copy host

• Separate Cisco uOne Entry Edition Install CD ROM (North America only)

Cisco AVVID support solutions are designed for one purpose—to ensure customer success by delivering a suite of proactive services. The award-winning Cisco internetworking service and support offerings provide presales network audit planning, design consulting, network implementation, operational support, and network optimization. Cisco interactive knowledge-transfer solutions enhance customer success by leveraging Cisco expertise and experience. By including service and support when purchasing Cisco AVVID products, customers can confidently deploy AVVID networks utilizing Cisco expertise, experience, and resources.

Ordering Information

For Part Descriptions and Part Numbers for Cisco IP Telephony Solutions, see

Part Descriptions and Part Numbers for Cisco IP Telephony Solutions

Posted: Wed Sep 27 05:13:25 PDT 2000
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