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There’s a showdown brewing between Microsoft and Cisco in the UC space. Both companies offer a lot of different products, some overlap and some don’t. I made a chart below to show where the products that do overlap stack up.
If you believe that the future is based on a software-powered universe, you’d have to put your money on Microsoft
| Feature | Cisco Product | Microsoft Product |
| Telephony / Call Control | Unified Communications Mgr. | OCS 2007 R2 |
| A/V Conferencing | MeetingPlace / MeetingPlace Express | |
| Web Conferencing | WebEx / MeetingPlace | |
| Presence / IM | Cisco Unified Presences (CUPS) | |
| IVR / Speech Applications | Cisco IPIVR / IPCCX | |
| Softphone | IP Communicator | |
| Video Calling | Unified Voice (formerly VT Advantage) | |
| Voice Mail | Unity / Unity Connections | Exchange 2007 |
One of the other major things MS has going for them is price. It’s not fair to Cisco to tally up all the licenses in the table above and compare it to an OCS ECAL per user, although that’s how you had to buy those products until recently. They’ve taken another cue from MS and unified the licensing.
Cisco have changed the licensing structure so customers can buy the above products in a unified bundle (CUWL) per user, so the pricing is much easier to swallow. Here’s how this breaks down:
| Features | Cisco CUWL Pricing | Microsoft ECAL Pricing |
| Voice, Presence, AV, Etc | $425 | $204 |
| VoiceMail | - | $36 |
| Required Maintenance* | $125 | - |
| Total (MSRP) | $550 | $240 |
*CUWL requires 3 years of maintenance @ $125 a year
This is all list price and subject to great variance
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