Our educational brethren at Stanford University are deploying fully-converged, full-featured Cisco Voice-over-IP, including
- departmental choice of converged network or separate data and voice LANs,
- wireless VoIP phones (Cisco 7925 WiFi),
- integrated soft-phone using their central identity system,
- color-display handsets and the wideband conference phone,
- Cisco’s extension mobility feature (log in at a desk phone and it is reconfigured with your “profile”–lines, speed dials, etc.),
- integrated voicemail built on Movius that includes (or will include) phone/web/e-mail interfaces as well as FAX reception.
Stanford has moved from an analog, apparently carrier-based offering, to Nortel VoIP, and now to Cisco VoIP, and continues to support all three. This looks like a great voice communications package for university faculty and staff. Kudos, Stanford!