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Product Overview
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway provides a method of intelligently routing messages and exchanging subscriber and directory information within a unified messaging network. It acts as the central hub in a network of Cisco voice and unified messaging solutions (Cisco Unity®, Cisco Unity Connection, and Cisco Unity Express applications) and third-party gateways that interface with older voicemail systems. The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway can:
• Help the unified messaging network scale as required for Cisco branch-office customers and larger distributed enterprises
• Simplify configuration tasks
• Centralize voicemail system management
• Help you transparently integrate Cisco Unified Communications Solutions into your existing older installation and eventually replace the older voicemail system
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway integrates small- to large-scale unified messaging deployments that consist of:
• More than five Cisco Unity Express systems, and up to 1000 mixed Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unity Connection, and Cisco Unity systems
• Mixed Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity, and third-party (Avaya Interchange) voicemail systems (integration through Voice Profile for Internet Mail [VPIM])
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway delivers an end-to-end Cisco Unified Communications Solution that offers you excellent business benefits by taking full advantage of various products, including Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity, Cisco Unified Communications Manager, and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express applications. The addition of the Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway to these applications can enable your voice messaging network to scale up to 500,000 subscribers or 1,000 messaging systems per messaging gateway.
Table 1 summarizes the hardware features of the Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway.
Table 1. Hardware Features of Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway
Feature
Customer Benefit
Small footprint
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway is delivered on a network module that coexists on an integrated services router with a Cisco Unity Express Network Module or other modules on a Cisco integrated services router.
Flexible hardware requirements
You can use Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway Network Modules across the entire Cisco integrated services router portfolio where a network module slot is available.
Efficient use of hardware resources, requiring no additional hardware support
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway Network Module includes a dedicated onboard microprocessor and integrated storage microprocessor. The network module is fully self-contained, with dedicated onboard processing, memory, and storage, enabling efficient voicemail system registration, directory exchange, and management.
Key Features and Benefits
Table 2 lists the features introduced with Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway.
Table 2. Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway Features
Feature
Customer Benefit
Ability to integrate Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity, and third-party voice messaging systems (Avaya Interchange)
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway provides familiar management features such as configuration, provisioning, and support through a CLI that is similar to the Cisco IOS® Software CLI, thereby reducing training time for network administrators and partners familiar with Cisco IOS Software.
Embedded operating system
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway employs an industry-standard operating system suited for embedded applications. It helps enable a disk subsystem not provided by native Cisco IOS Software. This approach translates into efficient operation while providing a robust, secure, and protected operating environment behind Cisco IOS Software.
Open messaging standards, including VPIM and Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway supports VPIM networks with:
• Cisco Unity Express Version 2.1 and later
• Cisco Unity Connection 7.0
• Cisco Unity Version 4.0(5) and later
• Avaya Interchange Version 5.4
Autoregistration for Cisco Unity Express Version 3.1 and later
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway allows simple, secure autoregistration with Cisco Unity Express Version 3.1 and later. Secure autoregistration is accomplished with username and password defined on the Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway. The gateway supports restricting, granting, or denying autoregistration to specific systems based on administrative needs. The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway:
• Supplies reports about:
• Autoregistration attempts
• Failures
• Successes
• Can display by means of CLI show commands:
• Registered endpoints
• Endpoints provisioned for registration but not currently registered
Manual registration for Cisco Unity, Cisco Unity Connection, and third-party voicemail systems
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway supports manual registration by means of Cisco IOS Software-like CLI commands for:
• Cisco Unity 4.0(5) and later
• Cisco Unity Connection 7.0 and later
• Third-party voicemail systems (Avaya Interchange Version 5.4)
• Cisco Unity Express 3.0 and older
Centralized VPIM routing
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway simplifies message routing and management by implementing a star topology for each messaging gateway and its associated endpoints, thereby eliminating the need for fully meshed networks between those endpoints. Each Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway acts as a central hub for VPIM routing.
Automatic directory exchange and update
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway implements automatic directory exchange, rather than a static directory table. Cisco Unified Messaging Gateways can automatically retrieve directory information from Cisco Unity Express (Version 3.1 and later), as well as exchanging and updating directory information with the peer messaging gateways in the system.
Multiple messaging operations support
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway supports Cisco Unity Express (Version 3.1 and later) message sending, forwarding, replying, vCard exchange, dial by extension, and dial by name with spoken name enabled on Cisco Unity Express, providing the added advantage of getting spoken-name confirmation across a networked system deployment.
Support for multiple address schemes
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway supports the following address schemes:
• Site ID + Extension
• E164 address (10-digit dialing)
• Any string length of digits as long as it is unique in the messaging network
System Distribution List (SDL) and System Broadcast Message (SBM) management
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway can manage (create, delete, permit, reject, or publish) SDLs and SBMs across multiple voicemail systems within a Cisco Unified Messaging network. Cisco Unity Express can still manage its own Private Distribution Lists (PDLs) and publish to them through Cisco Unified Messaging Gateways, allowing you to send a message to a preselected list of recipients across your organization.
Relay foreign hosts (Avaya Interchange with Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway)
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway allows Cisco voice and unified messaging solutions to relay with foreign hosts with the VPIM protocol.
Header manipulation and message translation
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway supports Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and message header manipulation to enable delivery of messages across different messaging systems (between Cisco Unity, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity Express, and Avaya Interchange applications).
Redundancy
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway provides a self-healing network topology through the primary-secondary active-standby failover model. You can use Domain Name System (DNS) servers to identify the primary and secondary messaging gateways.
Note: Avaya Interchange can communicate only with a single remote messaging gateway, and therefore no failover support can be provided for this application.
Nondelivery receipts (NDRs) and delayed-delivery receipts (DDRs)
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway can generate and deliver NDRs and DDRs with configurable timeouts, allowing networked systems to work better with information to the sender of the message in case a node is not reachable because of WAN failures.
Network Address Translation (NAT) support
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway supports message delivery through NAT. The NAT table can be configured on the messaging gateway to map internal and external IP addresses.
Scalability
A fully meshed Cisco Unified Communications Messaging Gateway system can support up to 20 messaging gateways (including both primary and secondary messaging gateways) with a total of up to 500,000 subscribers, allowing for flexible system design with Cisco Unified Messaging Gateways spread across a large network based on geography or other logical partitioning. Information is shared across the network with Cisco Unified Messaging Gateways acting as the intelligent message and information routing elements.
Backup and restore
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway has backup and restore capabilities, including the data from both local configuration and directory exchanges and updates across the messaging network. This ability allows for recovery in case of a catastrophic failure at a data center or site where the Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway is hosted.
System provisioning and management capability
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway supplies logging and tracing capabilities with which the administration user can:
• Monitor a specific system module on certain activities
• Log the tracing message to a remote FTP server
• Log the events to a remote syslog server
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway supports:
• The ability to load and save configurations in the same manner as Cisco IOS Software routers and switches
• Software upgrades from or to major releases
• Licenses based on the number of nodes in the network
• The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway provides Cisco Unity Express with Cisco IOS Software-like startup and shutdown capabilities and supplies a trace facility for troubleshooting and provisioning.
New prompts for Cisco Unity Express telephone user interface (TUI) and Cisco VoiceView Express
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway provides additional prompts on the Cisco Unity Express TUI and Cisco VoiceView Express applications with the option of Global Directory Lookup when the local Cisco Unity Express endpoint does not have the requisite information.
Spoken-name confirmation
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway provides spoken-name confirmation for all local and remote recipients. Because the confirmation includes the remote location information if applicable, it helps ensure that the message is sent to the correct location, and spoken-name confirmation helps ensure that the correct recipient has been selected when a user addresses a voicemail message.
Product Summary
The following Cisco routers support Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway:
• Cisco 3900 Series Integrated Services Routers (with NM-SM-ADPTR)
• Cisco 2900 Series Integrated Services Routers (with NM-SM-ADPTR)
• Cisco 3800 Series Integrated Services Routers
• Cisco 2800 Series Integrated Services Routers
Software Support
The Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway Network Modules (NME-UMG and NME-UMG-EC) are supported beginning with Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4(15)T. Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway supports Cisco Unity Express Release 3.1, Cisco Unity Release 7.0, and Cisco Unity Connection Release 7.0.
License Support
The following Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway products are available:
• Two network modules with different capacities (as shown in Table 3); part numbers follow:
◦ NME-UMG
◦ NME-UMG-EC
• Four licenses based on the maximum number of endpoints supported; part numbers follow:
◦ UMG-LIC-25
◦ UMG-LIC-100
◦ UMG-LIC-500
◦ UMG-LIC-1000
• Two license upgrades; part numbers follow:
◦ UMG-LIC-25=
◦ UMG-LIC-100=
Table 3 lists the limit of subscribers and nodes for each version of the Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway.
Table 4 gives specifications of the Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway.
Table 4. Specifications of Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway
Processor feature
5 Intel Celeron-M processors: 1 GHz with 512 KB of Layer 2 cache
Default memory (synchronous dynamic RAM [SDRAM]): Maximum SDRAM internal disk storage network interfaces
Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway Network Module (NME-UMG) with 1 GB of RAM and 80-GB hard disk
Enhanced-capacity Cisco Unified Messaging Gateway Network Module (NME-UMG-EC) with 2 GB of RAM and 80-GB hard disk
Physical Specifications
Dimensions (H x W x D)
5.25 x 3.35 x 0.75 in. (13.34 x 8.51 x 1.91 cm)
Weight
0.20 lb (0.09 kg) maximum
Operating humidity
5 to 90% noncondensing
Operating temperature
23 to 122°F (-5 to 50°C)
Nonoperating temperature
-40 to 158°F (-40 to 70°C)
Operating altitude
0 to 13,000 ft (0 to 3963m)
Safety
UL 60950, IEC 950, and EN60950
EMC
FCC Part 15 Class A; EN55022 Class A; AS/NZS 3548 Class A; CISPR22 Class A; VCCI Class A; EN55024; EN61000-3-2; and EN61000-3-3
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