Understanding & Configuring Presence Service in Cisco Unified CME

A presence service is a system for finding,retrieving, and distributing presence information from a source, called a presence entity (presentity), to an interested party called a watcher.Presence Service enables the calling party to know before dialing whether the called party is available.Presence features uses SIP SUBSCRIBE and NOTIFY methods to allow users and applications to [...]

CUCM Presence Vs CUPS Presence

In Cisco Unified Communicator Manager (CUCM ) , Users can check the status of another phone via what is known as “Phone Presence” i.e status of phone/line DN being in either ON HOOK state, OFF HOOK state ,  DO NOT DISTURB state etc.This feature in CUCM is called BLF (Busy Lamp Field).BLF displays the real-time [...]

Cisco CuCiMoC Unveiled !!!

Recently, Cisco officially released CuCiMoC. It stands for Cisco UC integration for Microsoft Office Communicator which has been designed as part of Cisco’s Voice Portfolio to allow Cisco to penetrate into Microsoft OCS domain to regain control for End to End enterprise voice communication.
Cisco is pushing this product forwards mainly for two reasons :

Before CuCiMoC [...]