BRKUCC-2676 Migrating From VCS To CUCM

Migrating from VCS to CUCM
BRKUCC-2676
Dean Lane – Systems Engineer
#clmel
Abstract
CUCM 10.x - is a true Call control platform for Voice and Video Collaboration. This
session discusses the migration of existing VCS video implementations to a
CCUM environment, to deliver on Cisco's vision of true video collaboration anywhere
in the organisation.
It creates a platform for a seamless end user experience across multiple video
technologies, such as immersive TelePresence, multipurpose room systems, video
telephony, and mobile video systems. We will delve into implementation and migration
examples to give the audience a good grounding for their own migrations and
deployments.
This breakout will cover the entire TelePresence solution including CUCM, VCS,
TelePresence Server, Expressway, MCU, TMS and endpoints.
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Agenda
• Architecture and deployment
overview
• Endpoint and Call Control
Migration
• Conferencing on UCM
• Extending the border
• Interoperability
• Summary
Architecture and Deployment Overview
Why Do We Need A Preferred Architecture
For Your
Collaboration Preferred Architecture (CPA) Reference
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise/design-zone-collaboration/index.html
Introduction
Figure 1. Cisco Preferred Architecture for Enterprise Collaboration
Table BRKUCC-2676
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Cisco and/or products
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For Your
Design Guidance Reference
Cisco Preferred Architecture
• Preferred Architectures provide
prescriptive design guidance
that simplifies and drives
design consistency for Cisco
Collaboration deployments.
• Preferred Architectures are
targeted at the Commercial,
Commercial Select and small
Enterprise customers, but can
be used as a design base for
larger customers.
Video Architecture
Traditional Traditional Today Strategic Direction
VCS-Centric UCM-Centric
Call Control VCS-C UCM UCM UCM
SIP Registration VCS-C UCM UCM UCM
H.323 Registration VCS-C UCM VCS-C (for legacy only) VCS-C (for legacy only)
Conductor for Adhoc &

Rendezvous
Conferencing Control VCS-C UCM Conductor
VCS-C/CUCM for Scheduled
Conferencing Bridge MCU CTMS TS and MCU TS
Conference Scheduling TMS CTS Manager TMS TMS
VCS-E and/or
Remote Access VCS-E ASA
Expressw ay Series
Expressw ay Series
Provisioning TMS UCM TMS and Prime Collaboration Prime Collaboration
Management TMS UCM Prime Collaboration Prime Collaboration
Deployment Models
Existing deployment
TMS
VCS C VCS E
Internet
SIP
MCU H.323
H.323 or SIP
Deployment Models
Existing deployment
Typical existing VCS centric deployment:
• An instance of TMS 14.5 with some managed endpoints configured. Used for
endpoint management, provisioning, phone books and scheduling
• An instance of TMS PE 1.3 installed with Movi users provisioned.
• VCS-C for call control. Configured in TMS for provisioning use (TMS agent).
Also VCS-E for Collab Edge. Both version X.8.2.1.
• TelePresence MCU registered on VCS and added in TMS
Deployment Models
Assumptions
• Existing deployment is a basic • TMS Provisioning users are

VCS deployment. being pulled from Active
Directory.
• MCU are used for scheduled
calls. • Jabber is replacing Jabber
Video for TelePresence (Movi).
• Conductor and TelePresence
Server is not part of the • EX devices are managed as
migration. systems not via provisioning.
• Migration of endpoints only as
first phase.
Deployment Models
Post migration deployment
TMS Prime
UCM VCS C VCS E

SIP Internet
Trunk
SIP
H.323
MCU Management
Deployment Models
Example of a typical Unified CM centric (post migration) deployment:
• Prime Collab Manager for endpoint management and user provisioning
• TMS for phone books for endpoints and scheduling
• CUC and IM&P for voicemail, instant messaging and presence
• Unified CM for Call Control
• Endpoints registered on Unified CM (SIP) or VCS-C for legacy H.323
• SIP Trunk between Unified CM and VCS-C
• VCS-E for Firewall Traversal/B2B breakout
• MCU registered on VCS-C
Deployment Models
Considerations
• For some customer deployments it will make sense to migrate now – for some it
might make sense to wait.
• Hybrid or combination of models might still be valid – there is not necessarily
one model that fits all customer scenarios.
• Strategic direction is UCM as Call Control platform.
• Customers are expected to approach migrating in steps – typically endpoints

first and infrastructure later.
Endpoint and Call Control Migration
Overview of Process
• Verify the Existing Deployment
• Collect data for Migration
• Prepare the Migration
• Pre-deploy New Components
• Add configuration to existing Components
• Migrate Systems
• Testing the Migration
Verify Existing Deployment
• Understand current configuration and fix any outstanding issues.

• Verify the compatibility of various devices in your network (Compatibility Matrix)
including software levels of endpoints (TC5 or newer).
• You may migrate endpoints to an existing or new UCM.
Collect Data for Migration
Export of systems from TMS
• Discover and collect the required information from the endpoints
• For the endpoints the main information required is the DN/SIP URI, MAC
address and system type.
TMSPE – discovery of AD connection details
• Discover the AD settings and filters used to provision the Jabber Video clients
(and for authentication) - assuming that email is the URI format for users.
Discover License configuration
• Discover TMS license configuration for license conversion.
Discover License configuration
Migration program: http://www.cisco.com/go/cucmupgrade
“CUCM Upgrade Central” v4.0 includes VCS Assessment
Readiness Assessment iPad App
for VCS to UCM Migration :
 Live data mining on VCS & TMS
 Registered Endpoint types & count
 License Count Usage report
 Recommendation on Next Steps
 Customised Upgrade Procedure to

migrate to Unified CM
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Prepare and Pre-deploy New Components
Overview
TMS Prime
UCM
VCS C VCS E
Internet
SIP
H.323
Management
MCU H.323 or SIP
Prepare the Migration
Unified CM Preparation
Activate Services for Unified CM and IM & Presence in Unified
Serviceability menu:
• Cisco Call Manager
• Cisco CTI Manager
• Cisco Extension Mobility

• Cisco Extended functions
• Cisco TFTP
• Cisco WebDialer Web Service

• Self-Provisioning IVR
• Cisco Bulk Provisioning Service

• Cisco AXL Web Service
• Cisco UXL Web Service

• Cisco Serviceability Reporter
• Cisco CallManager SNMP Service
• Cisco DirSync
Pre-deploy New Components
Prime Collaboration Provisioning Configuration
• Use Prime Collaboration Provisioning Wizard to configure the Unified
Communications Solution including Unified CM, Unity Connection and IM &
Presence
Convert collected data to Prime Template
Convert discovered information from TMS into Prime Template to import devices.
Add Configuration to Existing Components
Create SIP trunk
TMS Prime
UCM
SIP Trunk VCS C VCS E

Internet
SIP
H.323
Management
MCU H.323 or SIP
Create SIP trunk
• Add SIP trunk and route pattern for UCM to push calls to the VCS.
– Routing of dial in MCU calls
– Calls to Legacy H323 endpoints that cannot be migrated
– B2B calls from UCM endpoints via VCS-C and VCS-E
• On VCS we configure a SIP trunk and Search Rules to route all calls for
endpoints to UCM.
• On UCM we configure Route Pattern, SIP route Patterns and point them to a
trunk.
• Mobile & Remote Access and VCS-E/Expressway (covered later)
Create Application User for TMS
• Configure an application user in UCM for TMS access.
TMS User Roles:

- Standard CCM Admin Users
- Standard AXL API Access
- Standard Realtime And Trace Collection
- Standard Serviceability
- Standard CTI Enabled
Add Unified CM to TMS
Add Unified CM to TMS as a device.
TMS will discover the Unified CM and IM&P servers during this process.
You will also be able to see the pre-configured endpoints.
Migrate Systems
Move endpoint registration from VCS to Unified CM
TMS Prime
UCM
VCS C VCS E
Internet
SIP
H.323
Management
MCU H.323 or SIP
Migrate Systems
Move endpoint registration from VCS to Unified CM
• Change endpoint configuration to receive settings provisioned by Unified CM.
• There are multiple ways of doing this:
– Initiate Factory Reset, automatically starting Configuration Wizard or option 150.
– Directly start Configuration wizard from the Touch panel.
– Push Configuration template from TMS changing provisioning details.
Migrate Systems
Re-add and update endpoints back in TMS
• As the endpoints now are registered to Unified CM the TMS configuration is out
of date. Re-adding endpoints to TMS will correct this.
• TMS will automatically update the database to Unified CM control for these
devices keeping relevant settings.
– TMS System ID, Scheduled conferences and admin information
• Devices now SIP only – not H.323 or Dual registered.
Migrate Systems
Migrate Systems
Migrate Systems
Migrate Systems
Run Diagnostic Tool
• TMS has a Diagnostic tool to help diagnose existing booked conferences and
correct route changes for migrated endpoints.
Migrate Systems
Run Diagnostic Tool
Migrate Systems
Run Diagnostic Tool
Migrate Systems
Phonebook sources
• Update phonebooks after endpoint migration.
• Add TMS phonebook source for UCM provisioned users.
• Jabber and Unified CM provisioned endpoints use UDS directly.
Testing the Migration
Migration completed
TMS Prime
UCM VCS C VCS E

SIP Internet
Trunk
SIP
H.323
MCU Management
H.323 or SIP
Testing the Migration
Suggested testing
• Install and sign in with Jabber to test it now being provisioned from Unified CM.
• Call to or between migrated endpoints.
• As we have not touched the MCU previously scheduled conferences still stay
the same and can be dialed into.
• Try call into a conference scheduled before the endpoints were migrated.
What About Trying This Out Yourself ?
The Cisco Demo Cloud
• http://dcloud.cisco.com
• Available for Cisco Partners
• Repeatable demonstrations
and customised labs with
complete administrative
access.
Conferencing on UCM
Overview
Conferencing on UCM
• Starting point – same architecture as post migration
• Recommended deployment from Preferred Architectures
– CMR Instant and CMR Personal
• Scheduling through Conductor
– Dedicated and Shared bridge model
NOTE:
Leaving WebEx out of this session - however it is supported in the architecture
Overview
TMS Prime
UCM VCS C VCS E

SIP Internet
Trunk
SIP
H.323
MCU Management
Conferencing
Components for Conferencing
Component Description
Manages and allocates conferencing resources

Cisco TelePresence Conductor
requested from Unified CM
Provides voice and video conferencing.

Cisco TelePresence Server Available on dedicated hardware platforms and on
virtual machine.
Conferencing
Types of Conferences
Description
CMR Instant
A conference that is not scheduled or organised in advance.
(ad-hoc)
CMR Personal A conference that requires callers to dial a predetermined number

(rendezvous) or URI to reach a shared conferencing resource.
A conference planned in advance with a predetermined start

CMR Scheduled
time.
Conferencing on UCM
Adding Conductor and TS
TMS Prime
UCM VCS C VCS E

Internet
SIP
H.323
Management
Conductor TS MCU
SIP and API control
Conferencing on UCM
CMR Instant and CMR Personal
• Configuring SIP Trunks between Unified CM and Conductor for Instant and
Personal conferences.
• CMR Instant and Personal conferences:

– UCM routing calls to conferences that will be dynamically created by Conductor.
– Conferences are not static but can be initiated at any time.
– Not configured or tied to specific bridge resources.
Conferencing on UCM
CMR Instant and CMR Personal
VCS C VCS E
Internet
UCM
Pool 1 Pool 2
SIP
Conductor Management
SIP and API control
Typical Conferencing Deployment Options
Conferencing Architecture
UCM VCS C VCS E
Internet
TS for MCU for UCM Conductor Dual-registered TMS

Permanent Instant TS for scheduling
conferences conferences SIP
H.323
SIP and API control
MCU/TS – Instant or Permanent

conferences
New – Single Deployment Model
Conferencing Architecture
UCM VCS C VCS E
Internet
Conductor TMS
SIP
SIP and API control
Dedicated / shared Pool of TS Resources
Conferencing on UCM
Scheduling through Conductor
• Historically scheduling has used dedicated resources to guarantee a certain

number of ports would be available throughout the scheduled meeting.
• Previous versions of TMS and Conductor supported limited scheduling with
several major caveats. New releases of TMS 14.6, Conductor XC3.0 and TS4.1
help alleviate many of the initial challenges with scheduling resources behind
Conductor.
• Now MultiParty Media 310, 320 and TelePresence Server on Virtual Machine
can be scheduled.
• Conference placement is done at conference start time.
Conferencing on UCM
Dedicated Resources Shared Resources

• 100% guaranteed resources for scheduled • Scheduled conferences are best-effort
conferences. service just as Instant and Permanent
• Similar to previous TMS deployment with conferences are.
directly managed TelePresence Servers. • Simplest deployment, TelePresence Servers
• Single TS, in single Bridge Pool, in single are dynamically allocated for any type of
Service Preference. conference.
• If utilisation is high, additional TelePresence
Servers can be deployed.
Conferencing on UCM
TMS UCM Conductor
SIP
SIP and API control
Pool 3 Pool 4 Pool 5
Pool 1 Pool 2
Single Bridge per Pool
Scheduling – dedicated CMR Instant, CMR Personal and

bridge scheduling - shared bridge
Conferencing on UCM
Scheduling through Conductor - Limitations
• TMS only recognises one Conductor node in a clustered Conductor setup.
• If a dedicated bridge is used for scheduled conferences, TMS will not take
advantage of Optimised Conferencing.
• TMS sees Conductor location – not individual bridges.
• It is recommended to disable conference auto-extend setting on TMS.
• Limitation on CCC (TMS Conference Control Centre) features available.
Extending The Border
Overview
• Terminology Introduction, Product Line Options, Scalability
• Firewall Traversal
• Mobile & Remote Access Solution Overview
• Business to Business Collaboration (B2B)
• Instant Messaging and Presence Federation
• Interoperability
Terminology Introduction, Product Line Options,
Scalability
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Branding Terminology Decode
Collaboration Edge
umbrella term describing Cisco’s entire collaboration architecture for edge
... features and services that help bridge islands to enable any to any collaboration…
…collaborate with anyone anywhere, on any device….
Cisco VCS
Existing product line option providing advanced video and TelePresence applications
Includes VCS Control and VCS Expressway
Cisco Expressway
New product line option for Unified CM and Business Edition customers, providing firewall
traversal & video interworking. Includes Expressway Core and Expressway Edge
Mobile and Remote Access (MRA)
Feature available on both VCS and Expressway product lines with X8.1 s/w
Delivers VPN-less access to Jabber and Fixed Endpoints
X8.1 Product Line Options
X8.1
VCS New
Expressway
Offering
“VCS Control” “VCS Expressway” “Expressway-C” “Expressway-E”

No Change No Change Or Core Or Edge
• Specialised video applications for video- • Solution designed for and sold
only customer base and advanced video exclusively with Unified CM 9.1 and
requirements above (including Business Edition)
• Complete set of X8 features • Subset of X8 features
• No changes to existing licensing model • $0 server software licenses
VCS and Cisco Expressway Feature Comparison
Cisco
Cisco VCS
Feature Comparison Expressway
Family
Series
Mobile and Remote Access Y Y
Business to Business Video Y Y
Business to Consumer / Public to Enterprise Access with
Y Y
Jabber Guest
Video Interworking (IPv4 to IPv6, H.323-SIP, MS H.264 SVC-
Y Y
AVC, Standards-based 3rd Party Video endpoints)
CMR Cloud/Hybrid (Webex) Y Y
XMPP Federation Y
Video Session Management & Call Control N Y
Video / TelePresence Device Registration & Provisioning N Y
VCS and Expressway
Recap
• VCS Control, VCS Expressway, Expressway-C and Expressway-E share the same code.
• VCS platform is a superset of Expressway Series features.
• VCS is Expressway + Local Registrations (mainly)
• Expressway is VCS – Local Registrations (mainly)
• MRA and B2B are available on both platforms.
VCS and Expressway X8 Scalability
Server Cluster
MRA Audio Only MRA Audio Only

Platform Video Calls Video Calls
Registrations Calls Registrations Calls
Large OVA, 1st Gen VCS Appliance

2,500 (Tandberg)
500 1,000 10,000 2,000 4,000
CE1000
Medium OVA,
2,500 100 200 10,000 400 800
CE500
Small OVA
2,500 100 200 2,500 100 200
(BE6000)
Note: Expressway C&E or VCS-C can be clustered across multiple BE6000s for redundancy purposes,
but with no additional scale benefit
Small, medium, & CE500 can support Unified CM calls scaling up to 150 video or 300 audio per server
VCS: “Unified CM Calls”
• Calls from endpoints using the
Mobile and Remote Access feature
are classified as Unified CM calls
• Unified CM calls do not consume

Rich Media Sessions (Expressway)
or Traversal Licenses (VCS)
• But Unified CM Calls do count

against the overall system capacity
Firewall Traversal
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How Expressway Firewall Traversal Works…
Enterprise Network DMZ Outside Network
UCM
Internet
VCS Control Firewall VCS Firewall
Expressway Signalling
Media
1. VCS Expressway is the traversal server installed in DMZ. VCS Control is the traversal client installed inside the
enterprise network.
2. VCS Control initiates traversal connections outbound through the firewall to specific ports on VCS Expressway with
secure login credentials.
3. VCS Control sends keep-alive packets to VCS Expressway to maintain the active connection
4. When VCS Expressway receives an incoming call, it issues an incoming call request to VCS Control.
5. VCS Control then routes the call to UCM to reach the called user or endpoint
6. The call is established and media traverses the firewall securely over an existing traversal connection
Firewall Port Details
• No inbound ports required to be opened on the internal firewall
• Internal firewall needs to allow the following outbound connections from VCS C
to VCS E
– SIP: TCP 7001
– Traversal Media: UDP 2776-2777 or 36000 to 36011
– XMPP: TCP 7400
– HTTPS (tunneled over SSH between C and E): TCP 2222
• External firewall needs to allow the following inbound connections to VCS E

• SIP: TCP 5061
• HTTPS: TCP 8443
• XMPP: TCP 5222
• Media: UDP 36002 to 59999
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/telepresence/infrastructure/vcs/config_guide/X8 -5/Cisco-VCS-IP-Port-Usage-for-
Firewall-Traversal-Deployment-Guide-X8-5.pdf
Mobile and Remote Access (MRA)
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Solution Components Software Requirements
Component Min Software Version Projected Availability
Cisco Expressway or Cisco VCS X8.1.1 Available
Unified CM 9.1(2) SU1 Available
Unified CM IM&P 9.1 Available
Unity Connection 8.6(1) Available
Jabber for Windows 9.7 Available
Jabber for iPhone and iPad 9.6.1 Available
Jabber for Mac 9.6 Available
Jabber for Android 9.6 Available
EX/MX/SX/C Series TelePresence TC 7.1 Available
Endpoints
Deployment Models
Post migration deployment…Now with a focus on MRA and external communications
TMS Prime
UCM VCS C VCS E

Internet
SIP
H.323
Management
Moving External Endpoints to UCM
Mobile and Remote Access for fixed endpoints
Existing
Endpoint registration, call control and Deployment
provisioning are serviced by VCS TC7.1+ Series
Control and TMS Platforms
DMZ Outside firewall

C Series
Collaboration
Services Internet EX Series
UCM VCS VCS

Control Expressway
MX Series
Endpoint registration, call control, and

provisioning are serviced by UCM Post Migration
Deployment
Jabber Video for Telepresence (Movi) and IM&P
Considerations
Jabber Video is a great video desktop client for Windows and Mac.
Few features, great quality: A/V + Content(BFCP), Presence and Directories. Nothing else.
Jabber Video architecture is based on: VCS-E  VCS-C TMS
Jabber Video is not capable of IM. This is now available with Jabber at no cost
Jabber (Full UC Client) is available for Windows, Mac, Mobile (Android/Ios), Tablet and has
tons of Phone/UCM features and services. (i.e. Voice Services, CTI Control, File transfer,
bidirectional desktop sharing, etc)
Jabber Architecture is based on: VCS-E -> VCS-C -> CUCM
Jabber adds MORE to the Desktop Video experience. At no cost.
What can Jabber Clients Do with MRA?
A fully featured client outside the network Access visual
voicemail
Inside firewall DMZ Outside firewall

(Intranet) (Public Internet)
Collaboration Instant Message

Internet
Services and Presence
UCM VCS Control VCS

Expressway Make voice and
video calls
Launch a web
conference
Share content
Search corporate
directory
New Endpoint Support
Targeting first half 2015

(Intranet) (Public Internet) DX650, DX70, DX80
Collaboration Internet
Services
UCM VCS Control VCS

Expressway
8811, 8841, 8851, 8861
7821, 7841, 7861
Services Available to DX Series Voice and video calling, including content share
with Cisco Expressway
+
Inside firewall DMZ Search corporate directory

(Intranet)
Services
UCM VCS Control VCS

Expressway Instant Message and Presence,
including escalation to Voice/Video
Visual voicemail
Protocol Workload Summary

(Intranet) (Public Internet) Protocol Security Service
SIP TLS Session Establishment –
Collaboration Internet Register, Invite, etc.
Services
Media SRTP Audio, Video, Content
UCM VCS Control VCS Share, Advanced Control
Expressway
HTTPS TLS Logon,
Unified CM IM&P Provisioning/Configuration,
Contact Search, Visual
Voicemail
Unity Connection
XMPP TLS Instant Messaging,
Presence
Conferencing Resources
VCS Expressway and Jabber Service Discovery
DNS SRV lookup _cisco-uds._tcp.example.com

✗ Not Found
Collaboration
Services DNS SRV lookup _collab-edge._tls.example.com
Public
DNS
✓ expwyNYC.example.com
UCM VCS Control VCS
Expressway
TLS Handshake, trusted certificate verification

HTTPS:
get_edge_config?service_name =_cisco-
uds&service_name=_cuplogin
Split DNS SRV Record Requirements
• _collab-edge record needs to be available in public DNS
• Multiple SRV records (and VCS Expressway hosts) should be deployed for HA
• A GEO DNS service can be used to provide unique DNS responses by
geographic region
_collab-edge._tls.example.com. SRV 10 10 8443 expwy1.example.com.
_collab-edge._tls.example.com. SRV 10 10 8443 expwy2.example.com.
• _cisco-uds record needs to be available only in internal DNS

_cisco-uds._tcp.example.com. SRV 10 10 8443 ucm1.example.com.
_cisco-uds._tcp.example.com. SRV 10 10 8443 ucm2.example.com.
VCS Expressway DNS
• Note: VCS Expressway servers
will often have multiple DNS
aliases, especially in dual-nic
deployments
• The VCS Expressway system
hostname and domain (defined
<edgeConfig>
under System > DNS) are <sipEdgeServer>
combined to form the VCS <server>
<address>expwy1.example.com</address>
Expressway FQDN <tlsPort>5061</tlsPort>
</server>
• VCS Expressway FQDN is <server>
embedded in the edge xml config <address>expwy2.example.com</address>
<tlsPort>5061</tlsPort>
served to remote clients, and </server>
needs to resolve in public DNS </sipEdgeServer>
…
VCS Mobile and Remote Access
from Unified CM perspective
• Remote access provided by VCS is, for the most part, transparent to UCM
• No requirement to build a SIP trunk on Unified CM to VCS C or E
• No requirement to make dial plan changes
• Remote Jabber clients or TelePresence Endpoints registering to Unified CM
through VCS will appear to Unified CM as VCS C IP address
Unified Communications Traversal
• X8.2 introduced new zone type, Unified Communications Traversal
• Similar to existing Traversal client and server zones, only simplified
• Unified Communications Traversal provides:
– SIP only, Assent based traversal
– Mutual TLS & TLS verify enabled
– Media Encryption Mode = Forced encryption
– Support for Unified Communications features (MRA, Jabber Guest, XMPP Federation)
Parallel Traversal Zones
• One Traversal Zone used for Open Video Federation
• Provides SIP, and optionally H.323
• Media Encryption Mode = Auto
VCS C Firewall VCS E
• Unified Communications Traversal Zone used for Mobile & Remote Access,
Jabber Guest, XMPP Federation
• Provides SIP, XMPP, HTTP
• Media Encryption Mode = Forced
MRA and B2B • An automatic discovery process
replaces SIP trunk between
Interaction with SIP trunk VCS Control and Unified CM for
Mobile & Remote Access.
• However, if Unified CM includes
SIP Trunk can interfere a SIP trunk for other
with remote registrations integrations like B2B video
federation, Unified CM will
Inside firewall DMZ Outside firewall reject any SIP registration
attempts from remote Jabber
Collaboration or TP endpoints, as the
Services register method is not accepted
Internet on Unified CM SIP trunk
interface
UCM VCS VCS
Control Expressway
• Update Unified CM SIP trunk
security profile to listen on
ports other than TCP 5060 or
5061 (you could use 5560,
SIP 405 will be returned to 5561, etc.)
SIP Video SIP Register request if there
Endpoints • Port change allows for SIP
is SIP trunk port conflict trunk integration AND mobile
& remote access
Combining Features on a Single Cluster Pair
B2B – MRA – XMPP Federation
Open Video Federation supporting:

SIP & H.323 (inbound & outbound)
Outbound calling for CMR Cloud/Hybrid
Inbound calling for CMR Premises
Collaboration
Services XMPP Federation
Unified VCS Control VCS
CM Expressway
Mobile & Remote Access supporting:
Cisco Jabber Desktop Clients
Cisco Jabber Mobile Clients
7800 & 8800 Series IP Phones
DX80, DX70, DX650 Collaboration Endpoints
TC Series Telepresence Endpoints
Multi-Deployment Support
New feature in X8.5 • Single VCS pair can now
serve multiple domains
example1.com
• Not a multi-tenant
architecture
example2.com • Single certificate
Internet presented by VCS E
needs to contain multiple
domain names
example3.com
Cluster 1
Cluster 2
Unsupported: Unbalanced Expressway Deployments
• This model is still supported
for traditional VCS
Expressway deployments
(Intranet) (Public Internet) (B2B)
• But this is not supported
Collaboration for the new mobile and
Services remote access functionality
introduced in X8.1
Unified VCS-Control VCS-E Internet
CM Cluster Cluster A
• Mobile and remote access
requires a VCS-C cluster
for each VCS-E cluster
VCS-E • Only one “Unified
Cluster B
Communications
services” Traversal zone
per cluster
Unsupported: Expressway Chained Traversal
• Chained traversal is
often used in
Inside firewall DMZ DMZ Outside firewall environments with
(Intranet) B A (Public Internet) heightened security
policies
Services • This option is still
supported for VCS-E
Unified VCS VCS VCS
CM C E E
(B2B), but will not allow
for Unified
Traversal Traversal Traversal Communication
Client Server &
Traversal
Server Services
Client
• Not supported for the
new mobile and remote
access functionality
introduced in X8.1
Existing VCS Customers
• Customers with VCS-C and VCS-E can add Mobile and Remote Access to an
existing deployment
• Simply add a parallel traversal zone on existing VCSs to support mobile and
remote access
• Concurrent session scale is the primary reason for adding Expressways
dedicated to Mobile & Remote access
Will the number of remote Jabber users making calls over Expressway crush my
existing TelePresence deployment?
Parallel Deployments of VCS and Expressway
_collab-edge SRV records don’t conflict with existing B2B VCS SRV records
Open Video Federation (SIP & H.323)

Cisco Jabber Video for TelePresence Registration
Cisco TelePresence Endpoints (TC) Registration to VCS
Collaboration
Services
Outbound calling for CMR Cloud/Hybrid
UCM VCS-C VCS-E
Cisco Jabber Registration

Cisco TelePresence Endpoints (TC) Registration to UCM
VCS C VCS E
Add _collab-edge SRV to Public DNS

NO Server licenses
NO call licenses
Business to Business Collaboration (B2B)
103
Secure Signalling and Media
VCS Media Encryption RTP to SRTP
VCS C VCS E VCS E VCS C B
A
Internet
Media Media Media Media

Encryption Encryption Encryption Encryption
mode: Off mode: On mode: Auto mode: Best
Effort
RTP SDES/SRTP(RFC4568)
RTP SDES/SRTP(RFC4568)
• Auto: No media encryption policy applied by the VCS

• Best Effort: Use encryption if available otherwise fallback to unencrypted
• Force Encrypted: All media must be encrypted
• Force Unencrypted: All outgoing media will be unencrypted
• Encryption Policy applies to SIP and H.323 calls interworked to SIP
• Encrpytion Policy does not apply to H.323 calls
Interoperability
105
Lync Integrated Architecture
Interop target architecture TP Conference
Conductor
Lync Servers CUCM Video

VCS (Interop) Phones
Personal
Room
Legacy Non-Cisco Immersive
end-points H.323/SIP
endpoint
Jabber
Conceptual diagram
Deployment Models ROADMAP ITEM

Subject to change
Post migration deployment…Now with a focus on 3rd party interop
VCS Control
Lync GW
SVC-AVC Gateway
+RDP/BFCP (CMR Scenarios)
VCS C VCS E
Internet
UCM
SIP
H.323
Management
Call (A/V)
Single Identity - Current limitations IM Session (IM/P)

SIP registration
XMPP Registration (IM/P)
Lync shares the same domain CUCM and IM&P needs separate domains.
“com pany.lab” for both A/V and IM&P i.e. “video.company.lab” and “company.lab”
LYNC Pool VCS Control “Lync Gateway” CUCM A/V

*@video.company.lab
CUCM IM/P
Lync client
Jabber client
Sip: [email protected]
Sip: [email protected]
Xm pp: [email protected]
Microsoft Lync handles Audio, Video and IM&P with the same call control system
Cisco handles A/V on CUCM/VCS and the IM&P is handled by the CUCM IM&P server.
Cisco best practices suggest to share the same domain for both Presence (managed by the CUCM IM&P) and Audio/Video (managed b y CUCM/VCS). This would
require Lync to send traffic to the two systems separately. Unfortunately Lync CAN’T split routes for a single domain to two separate addresses
Therefore Jabber needs two different URIs. One for Presence and one for Voice/Video.
Lync users will have to contact Jabber users using two different URI addresses (i.e. [email protected] for video calls and
[email protected] for IM chat sessions). Jabber Users will be listed twice in the Lync buddy list since two different contacts are needed.
VCS IM&P Federation & Video Integration - Combined
Lync to Jabber Migration - Directory VCS C
CUCM / IM&P
Lync Frond End
Initial SIP invite (2)

IM XMPP invite (4)
VCS Directory
SIP AV invite
(3b)
VCS Lync Gateway
• This is currently in a pilot stage today

• Scalability testing still ongoing
• Application Note listed on the Cisco Interoperability Portal
Lync Server 2013 via Expressway to Cisco Unified Communications Manager Release 10.5 IM&P
Summary
Session Key Takeaway
• Cisco Preferred Architecture for Video - recommended deployment models that
are prescriptive, out-of-the-box, built to scale and tested by Cisco.
• VCS to UCM migration program and recommended process.
• Single deployment model for UCM conferencing with Conductor.
• MRA allows external endpoints registrations to UCM.
• B2B, Legacy Endpoints and Interoperability will continue to use VCS.
We are now ready to encourage migrating to a
UCM based video call control platform.
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Dean Lane – Systems Engineer

Figure 1. Cisco Preferred Architecture for Enterprise Collaboration

Call Control VCS-C UCM UCM UCM

SIP Registration VCS-C UCM UCM UCM

Conductor for Adhoc &

Conferencing Bridge MCU CTMS TS and MCU TS

Conference Scheduling TMS CTS Manager TMS TMS

Provisioning TMS UCM TMS and Prime Collaboration Prime Collaboration

Management TMS UCM Prime Collaboration Prime Collaboration

• Existing deployment is a basic • TMS Provisioning users are

UCM VCS C VCS E

• Customers are expected to approach migrating in steps – typically endpoints

• Understand current configuration and fix any outstanding issues.

Migration program: http://www.cisco.com/go/cucmupgrade

 Live data mining on VCS & TMS

 Registered Endpoint types & count

 License Count Usage report

 Recommendation on Next Steps

 Customised Upgrade Procedure to

• Cisco Extension Mobility

• Cisco WebDialer Web Service

• Cisco Bulk Provisioning Service

• Cisco UXL Web Service

SIP Trunk VCS C VCS E

• Configure an application user in UCM for TMS access.

TMS User Roles:

• Devices now SIP only – not H.323 or Dual registered.

UCM VCS C VCS E

UCM VCS C VCS E

Manages and allocates conferencing resources

Provides voice and video conferencing.

CMR Personal A conference that requires callers to dial a predetermined number

A conference planned in advance with a predetermined start

UCM VCS C VCS E

• CMR Instant and Personal conferences:

TS for MCU for UCM Conductor Dual-registered TMS

MCU/TS – Instant or Permanent

Dedicated / shared Pool of TS Resources

• Historically scheduling has used dedicated resources to guarantee a certain

Dedicated Resources Shared Resources

Pool 3 Pool 4 Pool 5

Single Bridge per Pool

Scheduling – dedicated CMR Instant, CMR Personal and

“VCS Control” “VCS Expressway” “Expressway-C” “Expressway-E”

• MRA and B2B are available on both platforms.

MRA Audio Only MRA Audio Only

Large OVA, 1st Gen VCS Appliance

• Unified CM calls do not consume

• But Unified CM Calls do count

• External firewall needs to allow the following inbound connections to VCS E

UCM VCS C VCS E

DMZ Outside firewall

UCM VCS VCS

Endpoint registration, call control, and

Jabber adds MORE to the Desktop Video experience. At no cost.

Inside firewall DMZ Outside firewall

Collaboration Instant Message

UCM VCS Control VCS