Cisco Unified Communications – are we on the path to licensing nirvana?

Posted: Monday 26 July 2010 at 11:43
Tags: Cisco, licensing, unified communications

Since Cisco entered the Unified Communications world back in the late ‘90s with the release of VoIP support on IOS routers, its licensing has often adapted alongside  the innovation of its products.

With Cisco recently announcing UCL (User Connect Licensing), Redstone Converged Solutions' Senior Network Consultant Les Whitten has taken a look at the history of Cisco UC licensing, and asks: "Are we on the path to licensing nirvana?"

"Has life been made any easier for the resellers, channel partners and indeed the organisation’s own IT team by the advance of Unified Communications?," questions Whitten in his article. "Getting to grips with user/application licensing has always been one of the necessary evils, whether considering PC and servers, routers and LAN switches or Unified Communications applications."

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