Rich UC Labs

The Rich Unified Communications (UC) Labs make up an extensive test facility. This test environment includes a series of preconfigured test topology labs designed to support different testing needs.

Use the quick links to learn about each lab's topology, or follow the links on the right to schedule a lab.

1. Basic Unified Communications Collaboration Lab (Voice, Video)
2. Unified Communications Collaboration Lab (Voice, Video IM and Presence)
3. Cisco Jabber Environment (Voice, Video, IM and Presence)
4. Extended Cisco Jabber Environment (Voice, Video, IM, Presence and Voicemail)
5. Interoperability Verification Testing (IVT) Lab
6. Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) Environment
7. Contact Center Lab

• Ability to schedule private time in a preconfigured test lab where resources are not shared
• Highly secure access options
• Facility to add Cisco and 3rd party application servers into the test environment
• Full admin-level access control granted for all servers within the lab, allowing "backup" and "restore" operations to save server and lab configuration settings and support testing steps in phased developments
• Registration to Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• Server hosting for on-site dependent applications
• Use of load and redundancy testing tools
• Internet connectivity for Cloud based services
• Hardware VPN for on-site registered Cisco IP phones to place offsite test calls

AvailableTopologies

1. Basic Unified Communications Collaboration Lab (Voice, Video)
2. Unified Communications Collaboration Lab (Voice, Video IM and Presence)
3. Cisco Jabber Environment (Voice, Video, IM and Presence)
4. Extended Cisco Jabber Environment (Voice, Video, IM, Presence and Voicemail)
5. Interoperability Verification Testing (IVT) Lab
6. Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) Environment
7. Contact Center Lab

• WebEx Meetings Lab
• WebEx Social Lab
• UC Load Testing Environment

1. Basic Unified Communications Collaboration Lab (Voice, Video)

This is the most basic Rich UC lab environment available.

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (version 8.6 or version 9.0)
• Active Directory and DNS Server

It is ideal for:

• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) endpoint registration
• Skinny Call Control Protocol (SCCP) endpoint registration
• Voice and Video functionality testing
• eXtensible Markup Language (XML) based feature testing
• Computer-Telephony Integration (CTI) testing

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2. Unified Communications Collaboration Lab (Voice, Video IM and Presence)

This is a general purpose Unified Communications lab environment designed for testing collaboration functionalities.

This lab contains:

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• Cisco Unified Presence Server
• Active Directory and DNS Server

Note:Cisco Unity Connection Server and other application servers can be added if required.

It supports phone registration, XML-based feature testing, and CTI and Administrative XML (AXL) provisioning application testing. SIP and SCCP endpoints are also supported.

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3. Cisco Jabber Environment (Voice, Video, IM and Presence)

This environment is specifically designed to test the use of the Jabber SDK; and also for Cisco Jabber client integrations.

This lab contains:

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• Cisco Unified Presence Server
• Active Directory and DNS Server

Note: Further application servers can be added on demand

It is used to test voice, video, IM and presence collaboration capability integration into web applications.

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4. Extended Cisco Jabber Environment (Voice, Video, IM, Presence and Voicemail)

This lab offers the full Cisco Jabber SDK environment.

It contains:

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• Cisco Unified Presence Server
• Active Directory and DNS Server
• Cisco Unity Connection Server

Note: Further application servers can be added on demand

It is used to support the integration of voicemail in addition to voice, video, IM, and presence collaboration capabilities. This lab also makes full use of the Cisco Jabber Client software capabilities.

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5. Interoperability Verification Testing (IVT) Lab

This is a standard Interoperability Verification Testing (IVT) environment, and contains:

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager Publisher
• 2 x Subscribers
• Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST)
• Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
• Remote Office Cisco Unified Communications Manager Publisher

Note: Application servers can be added on demand

In addition to testing a solution's compatibility with Cisco products, it is designed to be used for call control feature and functionality testing such as redundancy, load, negative and feature testing of general unified communications 3rd party applications.

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6. Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) Environment

This environment is designed to support testing of Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) integrations, and contains:

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• Cisco Unified Presence Server
• Active Directory Server
• Desktop Delivery Controller
• Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD) x 3

Note: Further application servers can be added on demand.

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7. Contact Center Lab

This lab includes Contact Center components to simulate a complete enterprise network with a head office and branch network. It is designed to support pre-IVT and IVT Contact Center solution testing.

This lab contains:

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager Publisher
• Head Office and Branch Office Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
• 2 x Subscribers
• Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST)
• Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) load generation testing equipment
• Remote Office Unified Communications Manager Publisher
• Connected Contact Center components
• Cisco Unified Presence Server
• Active Directory Server
• Cisco Unity Connection Server

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