Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)

We use the Cisco Business Edition 7000 series in our organization to get connected to our team mates and they are most reliable. They are easy to use and provide great functionality when it comes to call our employees. The product has got great features and functionality. Communicating over a normal mobile handset is quite hectic as some organization do not allow phones in working hour and also the network are quite unstable some time hence it become difficult to call the employees when there is some need and urgency. This is where cisco phones comes in picture and solve our day to day problem. They are very reliable and make our work easy.

Cisco business edition are well suited for the environment where we need regular communication as they are easy to dial and has got great features. The product is well suited for both small business and large enterprises. Speed dial, good voice quality are key features of Cisco phones.
They are not well suited in scenarios where we do not have LAN connectivity or internet. Sometimes we may face latency and jitteriness which is not good.

This series is primarily used for phone/telecommunications purposes by our department and by many other offices at my organization. It runs smoothly but is reliant on a good internet connection. There are times when the internet goes out for any number of reasons, which affects phone usage. Or if there is a power outage, the phone has often disconnected or become non-functional.

A nice big screen for the phone allows for a decent interface with the user. Many buttons exist that cause confusion. In some cases, less is more.

Cisco Business Edition 7000 is being used throughout the organization and is deployed at headquarters. All branches and headquarters are interconnected with a site-to-site VPN through MPLS links, prioritizing voice and video traffic. With these links, it allowed the company to upgrade the telephone system with the acquisition of the BE7000. Telephone calls between the company's locations are no longer cost-effective, generating huge savings. The solution provides other technologies in addition to telephony, such as videoconferencing, messaging, voicemail, call recording ,and management systems.

The platform is perfectly suited for collaboration involving everything related to integrated voice and video systems. It is easily installed on physical servers and virtualized and can be accessed remotely. The BE 7000 modernized the infrastructure with voice-over IP and generates complete reports on the telephone and video usage of users in all the company's regions for internal control and auditing. The solution can be recommended for medium and large scenarios from 1000 users up to a limit of 5000 users.

For one of the retail banking [sectors], we are deploying [the Cisco] business edition appliance. It comes under 2 [variants] namely 7000M and 7000H. We have gone ahead with 7000H considering it is built for [video-intensive] purpose. Our deployment model ckmsiso of video equipment [devices, servers, IP phones, and routers] all of [the Cisco] make to give [customers] a rich experience.

It supports around 8 to 10 collaboration applications. It's [cost-effective] considering [one-time] deployment.Helps in increasing productivity. Easy to deploy and manage platform.

[Cisco Business Edition 7000] is being used by the whole organization as well as by our customers. This addresses the scalability to deploy a UC cluster. As this is a VM environment, this makes admin easy to manage.

[Cisco Business Edition 7000 is] well suited for collaborations.

I've set up collaboration nodes for a few of our customers. Used this to support small-sized and medium-sized deployments. Small being under 1000 users and medium being a 3000 user set up. Application servers came pre-installed/pre-deployed, so that saved a lot of our time which usually would've been spent in downloading iso files copying them to datastores and setting up the nodes.

Its well suited for small to medium scale deployments if the infra is in-house. Webex and other SaaS solutions are in demand these days and are cost-effective too, but if for some reason your deployments need a locally-managed data center, then go for the BE7K or the BE6K depending upon your requirement.

It's being used across the whole organization, except the customer's branches. At the time of implementation, there were no problems on the servers. I have installed publisher, subscribers, expressway C and E, and unity connection, although the servers have space to create more virtual machines. As of today, I have more than a thousand registered users.

It is an appropriate product for companies with 1000 users and up to 3000 devices. It is a product that facilitates the implementation task since the VMWare ESXi is already installed along with its license and several virtual machines have already been created within it to facilitate implementation times on the client.

We are using Cisco Business Edition 7000 in our company as the basic communication Unified Call manager to support Communication between Cisco IP phones and Softphones. The capability and performance of Cisco Business Edition 7000 give us the ability to settle the communication between all our branches and departments, and yes, all business units are using this product through their IP phones.

The powerful tools on Cisco Business Edition 7000 give us the ability to set up all IP phones and connect our lines to [them] and give the right permission to users to use whatever we need. [At] the same time, it gives us the needed reports and statistics on usage and performance.

Cisco BE7K was used by our organisation as a mid-size branch communication platform. With all the necessary UC apps included in one solution BE7K brought all the UC services that Cisco offers within one box, which really removed the complexity for us as end users.

BE7K is well suited for small/medium enterprise environments. It has all the necessary UC toll that is required for any modern knowledge worker. I don't see any other cases where it is not suited. The platform is amazing and suits any use cases whenever the Unified Communication is required.

The entire company is using the BE 7K as a phone system and we have no plans of leaving.

Cisco's 7000S is a solid option for businesses. Mainly it offers better-than-average opportunities for integration, and a superior list of cutting-edge features including voice, video and instant messaging all managed from a single dashboard. Their reputation for customer support is also of note. The company, however, does not advertise prices and does not offer an uptime service guarantee.