Cisco Unified Communications Manager (2024)

Enterprise unified communications and collaboration

Bring people together anytime, anywhere, and on any device with Cisco's integrated collaboration infrastructure for voice and video calling, messaging, and mobility.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) provides reliable, secure, scalable, and manageable call control and session management.

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Features and Capabilities

Unified communications

Consolidate your communications infrastructure and enable your people and teams to communicate simply with the Cisco Unified Communications Manager. The solution features IP telephony, high-definition video, unified messaging, Instant Message and Presence.

Enhanced mobility

Transform your workspaces. Attract and retain the best talent wherever they are and enable them to be productive by giving them Cisco Unified Communications Manager, the tools to succeed. The solution has extensive features to support mobile and remote workers.

Local and global

Regional, family run business or global mega-brand? Choose a solution that scales as your organization's needs change. Cisco Unified Communications Manager supports the needs of small and midsize businesses through to the largest enterprises with up to 80,000 users.

Cloud-connected global operations

Webex Cloud-Connected UC service lets multisite businesses centralize control of UCM operations functions, including upgrades, analytics, and troubleshooting.

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Open and interoperable

Cisco Unified (CM) supports industry standards, a wide range of gateways, and a broad ecosystem of third-party integrations and solutions plus partners. This results in a rich collaboration with anyone, anywhere and embedded collaboration in your line-of-business applications.

Secure and compliant

Cisco Unified (CM) supports the latest authentication, encryption, and communication protocols. It complies with key industry certifications, and secures data and communications for customers in financial services, manufacturing, retail, and government across the globe.

How to deploy

Unified Communications Manager is available as part of a packaged collaboration solution, a hosted solution from our partners, or it can be installed on your own hardware.

Cisco Business Edition 6000

Choose an all-in-one packaged collaboration solution for organizations of up to 1,000 employees.

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Scale your business communications with modular packaged solutions for midsize to large enterprises.

Choose a hosted collaboration solution

You can select unified communications as a public hosted or private cloud service from Cisco Powered Partners.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Cloud

Cisco hosted and operated cloud calling solution that is partner led, delivering enterprise-grade unified communications and collaboration as a service from the Cisco Webex® cloud.

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Modernizing with Unified Communications

The Cisco vision of a single communication platform standard across the organization is what we envisioned for ourselves.

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Our customers have spoken

Cisco recognized as a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Unified Communications.

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What’s new

Find the best subscription plan for you

With Flex Plan, you choose the right subscription based on your business needs. Each option includes technical support.

Smooth your transition to cloud

Get Cisco cloud and on-premises call control in one user-based subscription with Cisco Collaboration Flex Plan. Mix and transition between on-premises and cloud as your business needs change.

Get the complete experience

Connect Webex Meetings and Webex collaboration to your Unified Communications Manager using Webex Hybrid Services.

Accelerate your results

Improve your ROI with UC experts who can take your solution to the next level.

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Resources

Versions and Options

  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 12.5
  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 12.0
  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 11.5
  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 10.5
  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 10.0

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End-of-sale versions and options

  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 11.0
  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 9.0

Support & Downloads

All support information for

  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager)
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Cisco Unified Communications Manager (2024)

FAQs

How many Cisco Unified Communications Manager servers can be listed in a Cisco Unified CM group? ›

Cisco Unified CM Groups Overview. A Unified Communications Manager Group is a prioritized list of up to three redundant servers to which devices can register.

What does Cisco Unified Communications Manager do? ›

Unified CM is the core of Cisco's collaboration infrastructure. It is an IP-based communications system that allows you to contact your coworkers or customers through audio or video regardless of physical location. The primary function of CUCM is call processing and phone registration.

What is the default login for Cisco Unified Communications Manager? ›

Default is a system administrator with username Admin and no password.

What happens in Cisco Unified Communications Manager when you dial a voicemail pilot number? ›

The voicemail pilot number in CUCM will send the call over to CUC, either via SIP Trunk or via a SCCP-based Hunt Pilot (depending on your integration). Once a call reaches CUC, CUC uses the Call Routing Rules to determine what to do with a call.

How many servers can be in a CUCM cluster? ›

A cluster consists of one publisher and a total maximum of 20 servers (nodes) running various services, including TFTP, media resources, conferencing, and call processing.

What is the maximum number of calls in Cisco CUCM? ›

Maximum Number of Calls - You can configure up to 200 calls for a line on a device, with the limiting factor being the total number of calls that are configured on the device. As you configure the number of calls for one line, the calls that are available for another line decrease.

What is the salary of a Cisco unified communications engineer? ›

How much does an Unified Communications Engineer make? The estimated total pay for a Unified Communications Engineer is $110,518 per year, with an average salary of $87,884 per year.

What are the benefits of Cisco CUCM? ›

A Cisco Unified Call Manager (CUCM) is, as the name implies, a system of Unified Communications. It features IP telephony for both voice and video calls, as well as unified and instant messaging. With its own mobile app, it's ready to be used by all your workers no matter how remote they may be.

What is the difference between CUCM and Uccx? ›

Because UCCX is a more advanced solution with omnichannel contact centre features, the licenses understandably cost more than CUCM licenses. Therefore your spending is instantly reduced. It is also likely in some cases that businesses already pay for CUCM as well as UCCX licensing for some or all of their employees.

What is the default password for unified manager? ›

The default value is admin.

How do I restart Cisco Unified Communications Manager? ›

Step 1 From the Cisco Unified Communications Operating System Administration window, navigate to Settings > Version. The Version Settings window appears, showing the software version on both the active and inactive partitions. Step 2 Click Restart to restart the system, or click Cancel to stop the operation.

What is the default password for Cisco UCS manager? ›

Each Cisco UCS instance has a default user account, admin, which cannot be modified or deleted. This account is the system administrator or superuser account and has full privileges. There is no default password assigned to the admin account; you must choose the password during the initial system setup.

What is the voicemail pilot number? ›

The voicemail pilot number designates the directory number that you dial to access your voice messages.

What is dialed number analyzer for Cisco Unified Communications Manager? ›

Cisco Dialed Number Analyzer allows analysis of inbound and outbound calls in a Cisco Unified Communications Manager dial plan. It analyzes the calls and provides results that show complete details of calls, including call patterns and calling and called party transformations that are applied to the dialed digits.

Can one H 323 gateway be registered on 2 different CUCM clusters? ›

Yes you can use the same VG from two CUCM as long as it is H323 or SIP and you will need some additional dial-peers to send/receive calls from new CUCM.

What is the limit of access list in Cisco? ›

You cannot have more that 128 rules in an ACL. You cannot have more than 10,000 ACLs (spread across all the ACLs) in one VEM. The following restrictions apply to ACLs: You cannot apply more than one IP ACL and one MAC ACL in each direction on an interface.

What is the capacity of Uccx? ›

What is the difference between UCCE and UCCX? the biggest difference is the capacity; UCCX is more compact and can go up to 400 agents. However UCCE or PCCE can go up to 60,000 or more.

What is the maximum number of registered devices in Cisco? ›

In theory the maximum number is 10,000. That assumes the node has no other responsibilities of any kind other than call processing for phones. As @Elliot Dierksen mentioned the number of devices also depends on the OVA. The maximum devices which a CUCM node can register is 10K.

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