Chapter 7. VoIP Supporting Roles

What You Will Learn

After reading this chapter, you should be able to

Identify key benefits offered by the Cisco Unity messaging solution.

List conference calling product options.

Describe Cisco call center applications.

Previous chapters in this book walked you through the migration from a traditional telephony network (that is, based on a corporate private branch exchange [PBX] system) to a Voice over IP (VoIP) network, where voice packets travel over a data network. However, the story doesn’t end there. In order for VoIP telephony systems to compete with well-entrenched legacy telephony systems, VoIP must offer much more than just the ability to place a phone call.

Today’s PBX users expect features such as voice ...

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