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Why shouldn't you Virtualise OCS for a Proof of Concept?

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Hi all, I have a sales guy who wants to sell a virtualised OCS PoC for internal IM/Voice/Chat/Video only. The idea being to move to full UC solution (physical) post PoC. Out of scope are the mediation/edge server etc.
My immediate thought was no...but...what are the real issues, from a technical point of view as opposed to emotional? One other thing we are talking about a small number of users (25) for the PoC?
Thoughts anyone?Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:56 PM
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Make sure that you do not use Audio/Video Conferencing because that requires processing on the MCU of the pool and you will experience bad satisfaction doing that
As long as you do Point to Point Audio/Video you should be fine!
Web Conferencing is always via MCU so that will be affected too
The reason not to virtualise Rich Media Experiences is that even a slight hickup in Audio stream is really anoying and has very bad user perception
If you can dedicate CPUs to your Pool then it might have a better experience...
- Belgian Unified Communications Community : http://www.pro-exchange.be -Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:05 PM -
Thanks for the great answer.
I have already expressed my concerns about the user experience and perception of the solution. It is a big risk - as we all know, perception is reality .
If we go ahead with the idea, the scope of works is going to be fun to write...exclusions, risks...Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:10 PM -
Yes because a POC is only as good as what the users actually think of it.
They probably are not aware of virtualization.
If they have bad experience you won't sell anything else!
- Belgian Unified Communications Community : http://www.pro-exchange.be -Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:24 PM -
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Thanks for thatSunday, May 17, 2009 11:15 PM
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Well but its only some roles that are supported and any role that handles audio / video is still NOT supported, so deli pros answer does still apply
Monday, May 18, 2009 1:29 PM