Collaboration System Release Version 11.0

The Cisco^® family of Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) solutions gives employees a full range of collaboration tools: premium voice, video, messaging, instant messaging and presence, conferencing, video conferencing, contact center services, mobility capabilities, and more. With these tools your small or midsize business can boost productivity among employees and strengthen relationships with customers and business partners. And they can help you speed decision-making and reduce time-to-market.

The Cisco BE6000 family is purpose-built for companies with 25 to 1000 employees. The solutions consist of one or more modular, stackable servers so you can easily add more capacity to support additional users. And because they use virtualization technology, they pack a lot of collaboration tools into a small form factor.

Cisco BE6000 is delivered with a suite of preloaded, ready to activate Unified Communications and Collaboration applications. And as your business needs grow, you can easily “turn on” the additional application options supported, including contact center, video conferencing, and more.

With these choices in size and functionality, you can select a collaboration engine that meets your business’s specific needs.

Platform Model Options

Cisco BE6000 platforms are built on virtualized Cisco Unified Computing System^™ (Cisco UCS^®) products, which are designed for performance and density over a wide range of company sizes and business workloads. There are three models:

?   BE6000H: Supports eight collaboration application options plus one for provisioning in a single virtualized server platform; maximum capacity of 1000 users, 2500 devices, and 100 contact center agents. Ideal for medium to large-scale end-to-end collaboration deployments (See Figure 1).

?   BE6000M: Supports four collaboration application options plus one for provisioning in a single virtualized server platform; maximum capacity of 1000 users, 1200 devices, and 100 contact center agents. Ideal for medium-scale end-to-end collaboration deployments.

?   BE6000S: Supports five fixed collaboration applications in a single integrated router/gateway/virtualized blade server platform; maximum capacity of 150 users and 300 devices. Ideal for small-scale “office in a box” collaboration deployments (See Figure 2).

The servers are delivered ready for use, with a preinstalled virtualization hypervisor and ten preloaded applications. Specific details of BE6000 platform components are available at the links provided in following section.

Cisco BE6000H/M: Built for Medium-Scale Collaboration Deployments
The Cisco BE6000 is a packaged solution that comes preloaded with virtualization and applications software and is preconfigured with core UC applications. Simply turn on additional collaboration applications as your business needs grow.


Figure 2. Cisco BE6000S: Built for Small-Scale Collaboration Deployments
This small-density, integrated router, gateway, and blade server is ideal for small sites that need basic, entry-level voice and IP telephony capabilities, together with powerful, easy-to-use collaboration tools.


Licensing
The collaboration applications in the BE6000 platform models are licensed on a per-user basis. Each BE6000 platform model includes a choice of highly discounted Cisco User Connect Licenses (UCL) or Cisco Unified Workspace Licenses (UWL) for the first 25 users of foundation applications listed in the following section. You can purchase additional applications and user licenses a-la-carte, based on BE6000 model type.