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Optimization covers any changes to an existing system, including hardware and software upgrades, that enhance the functionality and performance of your network.
Collecting and analyzing data from your system's performance reports will provide crucial information for optimizing your system. By maintaining the routine system management procedures that you set up for your operations lifecycle, you will know when your traffic load increases and when to expand capacity.
Your network has been operational for some period of time and is ready to be optimized based on system performance criteria. Your daily operations and growing business needs provide continuous feedback for optimization.
User feedback, audits, and test results provide data to continue optimizing the system.
After you have your upgrade plan and preparations in place, perform your system upgrade by following the guidelines and sequence in Component Installation and Configuration Guides.
Failover testing was done to verify the redundancy and failover capabilities of specific components such as gatekeepers, WAN access routers, and the private connection between the Roggers in the data centers. Failover testing is typically done with:
Steps to Success is a Cisco methodology that outlines the tasks required to complete a successful customer engagement. Registered users can visit the Steps to Success resource site for Cisco Collaboration process flows.
Cisco Collaboration Systems Services is a Cisco service offering that provides engineering expertise and best practices.
Registered users can visit the Cisco Unified Communications Services partner site.
Nonregistered users can visit the Services for Unified Communications site.