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Arun Ragunathan
Level 4
Level 4

We are happy to introduce the Cisco Business Edition 6000S (BE6000S) to our Packaged Collaboration Solutions portfolio, as well as simplified deployments for all BE6000 platform models.

All-in-One Platform for Small-Scale Customers

Now you can expand your sales success into smaller customers with the new BE6000S platform, orderable from Dec 5th 2014, shipping from January 2015. Ideal for smaller sites, BE6000S is purpose-built to deliver core collaboration capabilities along with integrated routing and gateway functionality in one small form-factor platform.

Solution Highlights

  • Delivers essential collaboration for up to 150 users and 300 devices
  • Easy to manage, all-in-one platform with 5 fixed, preconfigured core applications:

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

Cisco Unity Connection

Cisco Unified Instant Messaging and Presence Service

Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning

Cisco Paging Server

  • Supports point-to-point video collaboration
  • Industry’s first “office in a box” solution based on the Cisco ISR 2921V and UCS E160D M2 blade server, with routing, gateway, wireless, security, and collaboration services all together in a single chassis
  • Simple and scalable solution with seamless migration path to higher-end platforms

Simplified BE6000 Deployments Save Time & Costs

Available with all BE6000 platform models (BE6000S, BE6000M, BE6000H) are new options for significantly reducing time and cost of deployments.

  • Cisco Config to Order Portal (CTOP) – Starting now* you can offload routine implementation to select Distributors, and accelerate your customer deployment time by up to 30%. This new BE6000 implementation service includes.

Day 0 set up/configuration processes managed at the Distributor’s site prior to customer ship

Secure Portal to provide the Distributor your customer’s data for preconfiguring the BE6000 system

*Check availability and pricing with your distributor.

  • Preconfigured Virtual Applications – Starting January 2015, all BE6000 platform models will include as standard the following features that can expedite/reduce deployment time by up to 60%:

Preconfigured applications with the most common configurations for:

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

Cisco Unity Connection

Cisco Unified Instant Messaging and Presence Service

Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning

Dial Plan templates

Router/Gateway configurations

All orders for BE6000S will be on NPH (New product hold) until FCS (First Customer Ship) in January 2015.There is no action required for the customer or the partner to remove the order from NPH. Once NPH is removed, orders will schedule and a ship date will be assigned.

Please check the support community for updates on FCS status.

For more details please visit: Cisco Business Edition 6000.

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Brett Hodgden
Level 1
Level 1

This is great news.  Do we know if there are any limitations or support issues in ordering the 2900 platform Security or Data Licenses separately and applying them since they're not already pre-configured?  This would be in order to use other services on the 2921 such as IPSEC, IOS FW, DMVPN, etc...

 

Thanks,

Brett

Arun Ragunathan
Level 4
Level 4

Brett

Services and interface cards/modules  supported on 2921 ISR but not bundled in the BE6000S packaged offer can be purchased ala carte and applied on the bundle. Please refer to 2921 datasheet for supported services and interfaces.

Arun

Brett Hodgden
Level 1
Level 1

Thanks Arun, that's exactly what i was looking for, just to make sure there were no limitations in additional services on the router.

 

 

Arun Ragunathan
Level 4
Level 4

BE6000S SKUs have been orderable since 12/5/2014 (BE6S-PRI-M2-K9, BE6S-BRI-M2-K9, BE6S-FXO-M2-K9).

 

First order confirmed successfully shipped 2/5/2015 so we can now declare FCS, and you will start to see this indicated on various partner sites.

 

Currently processing backlogged orders from orderability thru present.   Staggering NPH release as the manufacturing sites ramp up and expect to clear backlog within next couple of weeks when ramp-up completes.  Brand new incoming orders will be auto-assigned the default new-SKU manufacturing NPH.  At completion of site ramp-up, new incoming orders will no longer auto-NPH and orders will schedule normally.

 

After NPH is removed on an order, a ship date / lead time is scheduled.  Check CCW for assigned lead time.  If want to move this up, follow standard CS/VP/EE expedite processes.

robmas0871
Level 1
Level 1

Hi, i 2 have questions about the licensing:

 

- Is the licensing model the same as 6000H and 6000M models ?

- Are some licenses included in the 6000S ?

 

Thank you,

Roberto

Andrew Hickman
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hi Roberto,

Yes, the licensing model is the same for all BE6000 models S, M & H.  The only practical difference being the maximum number of UC licenses that can be ordered for the BE6000S (150 instead of 1000).

There are no UC licenses included with the BE6000S appliance (the same goes for M&H).

The BE6000S does include 10 CUBE session licenses and the Cisco embedded hypervisor license though.

The BE6000 Ordering Guide includes all of these details.

Hope that helps,

Andy

likuanming
Level 1
Level 1

Hi Andrew,

Is there any installation or configuration guide for the BE6000S? It is hard to find anything.

Thanks.

KLi

likuanming
Level 1
Level 1

 

 

Marco Hirschmann
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Please check out this document http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/solutions/CVD/Collaboration/midmarket/Oct2015/CVD-UCUsingBE6000.pdf

Appendix B page 71. 

Regards,

Marco 

Hi,

Is the BE6000S still available in the CTOP portal. If not, can you point me to some kind of a formal Cisco notification on this?

Johan

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