SRSV and VPIM EoL Notice for Unified Messaging Gateway (UMG)

karmakar · ‎12-08-2011

End of life notices for VPIM and SRSV features on UMG (Unified Messaging Gateway)

We would like to announce the transition plan and end of life milestones for two features on the Unified Messaging Gateway (UMG) product. These changes affect Cisco’s overall voice mail solution delivery.

Features affected –

VPIM – Voice Profile for Internet Mail
SRSV – Survivable Remote Site Voicemail

VPIM was part of UMG 1.0, and was designed to be a central hub in a large voice mail messaging network. Over time, the critical VPIM features were absorbed into Cisco Unity Connection (CUC) and Cisco Unity Express (CUE). While CUC and CUE are not direct replacements for the UMG-VPIM feature set, they can directly interact with other VPIM-compatible messaging products. Our recommendation is to use either CUC or CUE for VPIM interoperability.

SRSV was introduced in UMG 8.0, and was our solution for voice mail survivability. During WAN failures, SRSV provided local voice mail and auto-attendant capabilities, and later seamlessly synchronized the voice messages to the central site.

We are transitioning the SRSV survivability and synchronization features from UMG and SRSV modules directly to Unity Connection. This will help us in several ways –

Feature compatibility during WAN up and down state,
Eliminating the need for a dedicated ISR-SRE module at the central site,
Fewer components and thus simplified management of the solution.

Additionally, to resemble the current SRSV branch hardware footprint, this flavor of Unity Connection will be supported on the SRE.

The key dates are –

External announcement – Today.
End of sale – June 18, 2012
End of maintenance releases – June 18, 2013
End of support – June 30, 2015

For questions and clarifications, contact your Cisco sales representatives or this forum.

Regards,

Cisco Voice Messaging Team.

Product home pages –

mcasimirc63 · ‎12-18-2011

That was quick!

http://communities.cisco.com/thread/18504

When will CUC come out with the SRSV feature?

brindal · ‎12-19-2011

Our current target is 2nd half of Calendar year 2012. But, like all targets, this is subject to change ;-)

Brent Rindal - Cisco Unity Connection Product Manager

skilambi · ‎12-19-2011

Is there any information that can be shared on architectures, licensing? If the UMG is eliminated where does the license now move?

Thanks

Srini

brindal · ‎12-20-2011

UMG wouldn't be eliminated - you will still need it for SRST.

We are still working out some of the architectual/design considerations, but for licensing, we will likely license it on the home Unity Connection server (centralized Connection server), or alternatively the enterprise license manager server.

skilambi · ‎02-03-2012

On a side note the comments above were specific to SRSV, how does this impact E-SRST. Since that functionality is not relevant to Uconn, how will that propogate?

Srini

Mili Daftary-Shah · ‎02-05-2012

E-SRST will continue to use UMG for provisioning enhanced SRST functionality on the router today.

We are virtualizing the E-SRST software ( roadmap item) which will enable you to host the E-SRST software on any UCS server or UCS express blade

Thanks

Mili

Dennis Heim · ‎10-01-2012

Any updates on the replacement for SRSV?

Mili Daftary-Shah · ‎10-12-2012

Believe the replacement for SRSV is coming in Nov 2012 or latest early 2013

r.pennington · ‎10-15-2012

https://communities.cisco.com/message/105761#105761

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Beta for 9.1 with Native SRSV to start soon.

Message was edited by: Kelli Glass

arun.sharma2 · ‎12-07-2012

Is anyone having any design doc for Native SRSV ? If so please share this.

brindal · ‎12-18-2012

Hi Arun,

I you send me an email (brindal@cisco.com) I will send you back a draft copy of the design guide. The release version should be posted as well by the end of the week.

Thanks

-Brent

arun.sharma2 · ‎12-19-2012

Hi Brinda

Thanks for your response. Could you please send me draft copy of the design guide on my this email, it would be very helpful to evaluate this version and include this version into our upcoming projects.

thanks in advance..

Thanks

Arun Sharma (WT01 - HLS)