Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued) vs. Global Call Forwarding

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)

Global Call Forwarding

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) was a telephony and VoIP business phone with unified communications features from Cisco, targeted at SMBs. The product is discontinued, and superseded by functionality found in Cisco Webex Calling.	N/A
Global Call Forwarding	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	An advanced suite of included and premium features to power business communications. Users can use the online control panel to set up custom rules for how incoming calls are routed, or use the GCF Softphone to make and receive calls, or use international phone numbers and SIP trunks with an IP-PBX.	N/A

Pricing

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)

Global Call Forwarding

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)	Global Call Forwarding
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)	Global Call Forwarding

Features

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)

Global Call Forwarding

Cloud PBX

Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued) 8.6 Ratings 8% above category average	Global Call Forwarding - Ratings
Hosted PBX	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)	9.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
User templates	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Call reports	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Directory of employee names	9.10 Ratings	00 Ratings

Call Management

Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued) 8.8 Ratings 5% above category average	Global Call Forwarding - Ratings
Answering rules	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Call recording	9.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Call park	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Call screening	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Message alerts	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings

VoIP system collaboration

Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued) 8.7 Ratings 9% above category average	Global Call Forwarding - Ratings
Video conferencing	9.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio conferencing	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Video screen sharing	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Instant messaging	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings

Mobile apps

Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued) 7.2 Ratings 10% below category average	Global Call Forwarding - Ratings
Mobile app for iOS	7.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile app for Android	7.10 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)	Global Call Forwarding
Small Businesses	CloudTalk Score 7.2 out of 10	CloudTalk Score 7.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	CloudTalk Score 7.2 out of 10	CloudTalk Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager) Score 8.6 out of 10	Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager) Score 8.6 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)	Global Call Forwarding
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)	Global Call Forwarding
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) is well suited on small and medium sites that need entry-level voice and IP telephony capabilities, together with powerful, easy-to-use collaboration tools. However , if a single user interface or VMware servers are deal breakers for you, I suggest another call system will likely be a better fit. Jorge E. Cantillo C. Network Consulting Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Smarter and more economical telephone system. Deployed on a Cisco UCS server. Easy and centralized management. Unified communications with chat, voice and video for all users. Telephone support in Portuguese with Cisco. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Include tools for inter-cluster migration, currently these are provided by 3rd parties Improve the software upgrade process by automating the pre-upgrade and post-upgrade checks Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	Happy with Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000); works great for us and costs to maintain it are well in hand. it also fits our current and future requirements going forward. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	BE6K [is] not just a bare metal server ,it is [a] complete solution with its own management tools. Incentivized Oleksandr Tsapenko Business Development Manager/Product manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Overall, the product provides excellent value for money. Our employees may interact at the same time on the Cisco Business Edition 6000 without disrupting the conversation. We have a significant number of employees that perform the same thing with calls, texting, and presence, and none of them have an issue. Incentivized Pratham Radadiya Full Stack Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Both Mitel and [Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)] allow the benefit of virtualization. If desired you could have an entirely virtual system. Cisco handles the virtualization a little better, however Mitel MiCollab is easier to integrate presence and calls. Cisco underlying architecture seems to be a little more stable, Mitel seems to be a little more user friendly. There are pros and cons and both are good solutions. Incentivized Steve Davis Solutions Architect Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Been easy to scale as our business has grown and from acquisitions Been pretty easy to maintain the software and upgrade it over its lifetime to date Software and license renewals are pretty straight forward Adding newer model hardware to the system is pretty straight forward Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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