Cisco Unified Quick Connect

Product Overview

Cisco^® Unified Communications Solutions enable collaboration so that organizations can quickly adapt to market changes while increasing productivity improving competitive advantage through speed and innovation, and delivering a rich-media experience across any workspace, securely and with optimal quality.

Cisco Unified Quick Connect provides a full-featured push-to-talk (PTT) solution on Cisco Unified IP Phones. A PTT session is a live broadcast session between two or more participants. Cisco Unified Quick Connect eliminates the need for overhead paging systems and overhead speakers by providing you with PTT to communicate with your colleagues. It uses a corporate directory to enable you to search for any colleague or group to contact using PTT. You can easily create PTT shortcuts directly on your Cisco Unified IP Phones for one-key usage that will start a PTT session with multiple users at once (Figure 1).

Offering flexible deployment models, Cisco Unified Quick Connect enables efficient multiparty communications. This simple-to-use application is ideal for highly mobile, fast-paced workspaces such as retail stores and hospitals. It is also ideal for a physically distributed workforce that requires quick collaboration without being in the same location, such as on school campuses or manufacturing facilities.

Table 1 lists the features and benefits of Cisco Unified Quick Connect, Table 2 gives platform and compatibility information, and Table 3 lists phones that the application supports.

Table 1.       Cisco Unified Quick Connect Features and Benefits

Table 2.       Cisco Unified Quick Connect Platform and Compatibility

Table 3.       Cisco Unified Quick Connect Supported Phones

Licensing

Cisco Unified Quick Connect is licensed by the total number of users. The application operates on the Cisco Unified Application Environment (UAE) and uses Cisco Unified Media Engine (UME), Cisco Unified Media Engine conferencing resources, and Cisco Unified Media Engine Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) resources.

Licensing required for Cisco Unified Application Environment and Cisco Unified Media Engine is usage-and configuration-based. Every concurrent transmitter counts as an application session for Cisco Unified Application Environment. The maximum number of concurrent transmitters determines the level of Cisco Unified Application Environment licenses required. Cisco Unified Media Engine conferencing and RTP resource licenses require that multicast be enabled on the network. In a multicast network, for every concurrent transmitter two conferencing and two RTP resource licenses are needed. In a unicast environment, one conference and one RTP resource license is required for every concurrent transmitter and each receiver.

Example

Usage assumptions for this example follow:

●   Busy-hour usage is 15 percent (15 of 100 users in an active PTT session)

●   There are three receivers for every transmitter

Table 4 lists the licenses required for 100 users.

Table 4.       Licensing for 100 Users

System Requirements

Cisco Unified Quick Connect comprises the following components (Table 5):

●   Cisco Unified Quick Connect Server: This Cisco Unified Application Environment solution enables access to PTT capabilities on Cisco Unified IP Phones using existing directories.

●   Cisco Unified Quick Connect Web Admin: The Cisco Unified Quick Connect application includes a web admin component that allows administrators to configure, manage, and customize Cisco Unified Quick Connect.

●   Cisco Unified Quick Connect Phone: This phone user interface application allows you to create PTT communications with users and groups from Cisco Unified IP Phones.

Table 5.       System Requirements^[1]

Warranty Information

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Ordering Information

To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering Home Page and refer to Table 6. To download software, visit the Cisco Software Center.

Table 6.       Ordering Information

 

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