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Product Overview
Key Features and Benefits
Specifications
Ordering Information

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New Product: Cisco MCS-7835 — Media Convergence Server

Product Overview

The Cisco Media Convergence Server 7835 (MCS-7835) is a high-availability server platform for Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data). The Cisco MCS-7835 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-7835 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. At only 3U high, the MCS-7835 packs tremendous power in a low-profile chassis designed to minimize rack-space requirements. The MCS-7835 is engineered to run a variety of Cisco AVVID applications, such as Cisco CallManager and Cisco Unified Open Network Exchange voice messaging.

Key Features and Benefits

The MCS-7835 features a 733 MHz Intel Pentium III processor, and is expandable up to 4 GB of 133 MHz registered SDRAM, extending the high performance you will require to roll out current and future Cisco AVVID applications. There is hardware RAID support for dual 18.2 GB Ultra2 small computer serial interface hot-plug hard drives to improve overall system performance. All of this power is delivered in a space-saving rack-mountable form factor (3U) designed to save precious rack space in your data center.

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 Cisco is building today. The high-availability design of the MCS-7835 will deliver a robust platform for your mission-critical Cisco AVVID applications. The MCS-7835 comes standard with a redundant hot-plug power supply and two redundant 18.2 GB SCSI hot-plug hard drives running RAID-1 disk mirroring to ensure maximum availability. If a hard drive or power supply fails, it can be replaced without powering down the server, and the failure will not affect service. In the case of the SCSI drive, as soon as the replacement drive is inserted, the integrated RAID controller will restore the image to the new drive, without any user intervention.

Whether you start your Cisco IP telephony network with 5 telephones or 5000, the MCS-7835 server seamlessly allows you to grow your network at your pace. An MCS-7835 server can serve as a Cisco CallManager server or a Cisco uOne voice-messaging server. Additional applications are planned for the platform in the future. As a Cisco CallManager 3.0 server, each MCS-7835 can handle up to 2500 IP telephones (total number of IP Phones dependent on N+1 redundancy configuration). This setup allows you to scale your Cisco AVVID network at your pace. Remote sites can also be interconnected through an H.323 interface, using an H.323 gatekeeper.

The MCS-7835 is configurable to run either Cisco CallManager software or Cisco uOne voicemessaging software. The MCS-7835 was also designed to run future Cisco application packages that will become part of the Cisco AVVID solution. The MCS-7835 has an optional internal 12/24 GB DAT tape drive to back up your critical data, and also offers the flexibility of saving important user data to a separate server located elsewhere on the IP network.

The Cisco CallManager (CCM) is the call-processing software component of the Cisco AVVID network. CCM extends enterprise telephony features and functions to packet telephony network devices such as IP phones, voice-over-IP gateways, and multimedia applications. The salient benefit of all these voice applications is that no additional special-purpose 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 CCM to IP phones and gateways.

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

Cisco uOne 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.

Specifications

• Intel Pentium III 733 MHz processor

• 256 kB secondary cache

• 512 MB 133 MHz registered ECC SDRAM memory

• 10/100 TX Fast Ethernet network interface card

• Integrated-dual-channel wide Ultra SCSI-3 controller

• Dual 18.2 GB Ultra2 SCSI hot-plug drives

• 1.44 MB floppy disk

• Preinstalled high-speed IDE CD-ROM drive

• Hot-plug redundant 275-watt power supply

• 3U rack height, ships with sliding rails

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 Cisco 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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