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Contents
Choice, scale, and simple management 3
Platform model options 4
Applications 5
Solution specifications: System capacity 7
Licensing 7
Ordering information 8
Cisco Services 8
Cisco Capital 8
For more information 9
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Cisco Business Edition 7000 14 (Collaboration System Release Version 14) with M6
appliances

Bring your extended or growing workforce together with a full array of integrated collaboration applications that
come preloaded on a single modular platform. Built on the virtualized Cisco Unified Computing System™
(Cisco UCS®) platform, the Cisco® Business Edition 7000 (BE7000) is equipped with premium
Cisco Collaboration applications for voice, video, mobility, messaging, conferencing, instant messaging and
presence, and contact center. Turn them on as your collaboration needs increase and easily scale your users
and devices by deploying additional BE7000 servers. The modular building block design of BE7000 is ideal for
deployments from several hundred users to tens of thousands of users, providing plenty of room for future
growth.

Choice, scale, and simple management

Have you reached the point where your voice system is maxed out? Or you need to connect multiple devices
per user but you don’t have the capacity? Or your users talk about how hard it is to reach co-workers and work
together productively? These conditions suggest you consider a collaboration solution. But perhaps you are
unsure if you want to deploy a major new IT installation.

With Cisco BE7000 you can try a group of collaboration technologies with a subset of employees and then
scale up quickly. Pay as you grow, rather than making a large initial outlay. Cisco BE7000 is optimized for
enterprise-scale organizations with 1,000 to 5,000 users and 3,000 to 15,000 devices, but offers a great fit for
smaller deployments where fast growth is expected. And by stacking additional servers, deployments larger
than 5,000 users can be supported at any time.

The BE7000 solution is extremely versatile. Each system is preloaded with premium voice, video, mobility,
messaging, conferencing, instant messaging and presence, and contact center applications. You can add
others as you choose from a broad selection of Cisco DevNet third-party partner applications. Combine the
wealth of applications and the building block design, and you have a solution designed to get your users
collaborating quickly and easily. And one that’s quick and easy for you to install as well.

And you have a very wide choice of collaboration applications (refer to Figure 1). You can deploy the Cisco
BE7000 for your large organization with 1000 to 5000 users or more with expanding collaboration needs. This
versatile platform lets you easily add new applications as your needs change. Begin with full voice and IP
telephony, and easily “turn on” video capabilities, contact center, support for third-party apps, and much more
over time.

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Figure 1.
Cisco BE7000: Stackable and Easy to Deploy with Many Application Choices

Platform model options

Cisco BE7000 platforms are built on virtualized Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) products, which
are designed for performance and density over a wide range of business workloads.

● BE7000H: This high-density model supports multiple collaboration applications (typically 12 to 15 in

deployments sized for 1,000 to 5,000 users, 3,000 to 15,000 devices) across multiple sites. For
more capacity to support larger-size deployments, you can stack additional servers as required. And
in smaller-size deployments with fewer than 1000 users, typically more applications can be
supported per server.
● BE7000M: This medium-density model supports multiple collaboration applications (typically 6 to 8
in deployments sized for 1,000 to 5,000 users, 3,000 to 15,000 devices) across multiple sites. For
more capacity to support larger-size deployments, simply stack additional servers. And in smaller-
size deployments with fewer than 1,000 users, typically more applications can be supported per
server.

The enterprise-class Cisco UCS C240 M6SX Rack Mount Server Family packages advanced performance with
energy efficiency of the Intel Xeon processor 6300 product family in a 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) form factor. BE7000
appliances are delivered with preinstalled virtualization hypervisor and application software, ready to install and
license.

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Applications
The BE7000 platforms typically host a selection of core applications as part of a comprehensive Cisco
collaboration solution.
Calling
● Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Cisco Unified CM) is the call-processing engine of Cisco’s
Collaboration Architecture. It extends voice and video features to network devices such as IP
phones, telepresence endpoints, media-processing devices, gateways, and multimedia applications.
Cisco Unified CM is equipped for use with the Instant Messaging (IM) and Presence Service. In
addition, multimedia conferencing, collaborative contact centers, and interactive multimedia
response systems are made possible through its open telephony APIs.
● Cisco Unified Attendant Consoles provide the human attendant console operator with the tools to
quickly accept and effectively dispatch incoming calls to individuals across the organization.
● Cisco Emergency Responder helps assure that Cisco Unified Communications Manager sends
emergency calls to the appropriate U.S. Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) for the caller's
location, and that the PSAP can identify the caller's location and return the call if necessary. The
system automatically tracks and updates equipment moves and changes, helping ensure better
compliance with legal or regulatory obligations and reducing the risk of liability related to emergency
calls as a result.
● Cisco Paging Server provides paging capabilities for all users. It supports basic and advanced
paging features. Basic paging features require no license and allow point-to-point or group audio
paging between groups of up to 50 Cisco IP phones. An advanced paging license allows unlimited
paging groups. It also makes possible other advanced functions, including paging to overhead
analog and IP speakers, bell scheduling, prioritizing emergency notifications with the call-barge
option, prerecorded and text-only pages, integration with social media sites for notification, email
and Short Message Service (SMS) mass notification and all-number monitoring, emergency services
alerting, and integration with Cisco Jabber clients.
Messaging
● Webex® App combines important team collaboration capabilities, such as calling, meeting,
messaging, whiteboarding, and content sharing into one simple interface that integrates with
additional cloud-based business applications, such as SharePoint, Box, and many others. Webex
connects your teams with external teams, including customers and partners, to bring all collaboration
activities together in one convenient space.
● Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service provides embedded standards-
based enterprise instant messaging and network-based presence. The service is secure, scalable,
easy to manage, and rich in features. It’s tightly integrated with Cisco Jabber® desktop and mobile
instant messaging and presence clients and the Cisco Jabber Software Development Kit (SDK).
Collaboration clients such as Cisco Jabber use products from the Cisco collaboration portfolio to
perform many functions, such as instant messaging, presence, click-to-call, phone control, voice,
video, visual voicemail, and web collaboration.

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 ● Cisco Unity® Connection integrates voice-messaging and voice-recognition functions to provide
continuous global access to calls and messages. Its advanced convergence-based communication
services allow you to use natural-language voice commands to place calls or listen to messages in
hands-free mode and to check voice messages from your desktop, either from your email inbox or in
a web browser. It also provides robust auto-attendant functions, including intelligent routing for
incoming calls and easily customizable call-screening and message-notification options.
Contact Center
● Cisco Unified Contact Center Express product line helps businesses and organizations deliver a
connected digital experience, enabling you to provide contextual, continuous, and capability-rich
journeys for your customers, across time and channels. This easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use
solution is designed for midmarket companies or enterprise branch offices. Secure and highly
available, it supports powerful agent-based services and fully integrated self-service applications,
including Automatic Call Distributor (ACD), Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Computer Telephony
Integration (CTI) and digital channels, including email and chat.
Edge
● Cisco Expressway™ is an advanced gateway that helps make collaboration as simple, secure, and
effective outside the organization as it is inside. Expressway provides remote access to mobile users
and teleworkers, without the need for a separate VPN client. It supports business-to-business and
business-to-consumer collaboration, and video interoperability with third-party standards-based
systems. Expressway also enables seamless hybrid collaboration experiences, connecting on-
premises unified communications assets to Webex® cloud services.
Management
● Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment is an application that is designed to assist in the management
of unified communications applications. It allows you to perform tasks such as migration of older
software versions to new virtual machines, fresh installs, and upgrades of existing applications.
● (Not preloaded) Cisco TelePresence® Management Suite offers flexible scheduling capabilities for
video meetings, including the ability to integrate with Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft 365. At the
core of the Cisco collaboration infrastructure portfolio, the suite facilitates on-premises video
collaboration. It works with Cisco Meeting Server and Cisco TelePresence Server deployments.

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Meetings
● (Not preloaded) Cisco Meeting Server brings premises-based video, audio, and web communication
together to meet the collaboration needs of the modern workplace. It works with third-party devices
and provides an enjoyable and intuitive user experience. It also scales easily and can be purchased
using our all-in-one, user-based multiparty licensing offer.

In addition, Business Edition 7000 appliances support co-residency of approved third-party collaboration
applications as described in the Co-residency Policy.

Solution specifications: System capacity

Table 1 lists typical system capacities that BE7000 platform models support (actual capacities will vary by
model type and deployment specifics). For detailed design guidance and deployment models, please refer to
the Solutions Reference Network Design (SRND) guides and Preferred Architecture for Enterprise Collaboration,
the virtualization docwiki pages, and the Collaboration Virtual Machine Placement Tool.

Table 1. Cisco BE7000H and BE7000M Models System Capacity

Attribute Capacity

Maximum capacity No enforced limit; Scales using modular, building-block approach; stack
additional server models to increase whole system capacity.

Number of devices supported No enforced limit; stack additional server models to increase whole system
capacity

Maximum number of co-resident No enforced limit; Typical deployments consist of two to four physical server
applications models:
● BE7000H model: Varies by deployment but is typically 12 to 15 per appliance
● BE7000M model: Varies by deployment but is typically 6 to 8 applications per appliance

Licensing
Each BE7000 appliance requires a license for VMware vSphere ESXi, which may be purchased from Cisco or
customer-provided. The collaboration applications in the BE7000 platform models are licensed on a per-user
basis. Each BE7000 customer may purchase a Cisco Collaboration Flex Plan subscription under an Enterprise
Agreement (EA) or Named User (NU) model for each of their users and common area devices. Cisco
Collaboration Flex Plan provides simplified purchasing with flexible payment options, easily extensible
functionality from calling and messaging to meetings and contact center, flexible migration to the cloud and
enhanced visibility into collaboration usage. For more information, see
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/unified-communications/collaboration-flex-plan/index.html. Ordering
Information

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Ordering information
To order any BE7000 platform model, simply purchase the required number of appliances (using the part
number[s] in Table 2), purchase a virtualization software license from Cisco or choose to bring your own, and
add application subscriptions to enable the required mix of features and number of users. Cisco channel
partners and resellers can refer to the Cisco Business Edition 7000 Ordering Guide for further information.

To place an order, contact your local Cisco representative or visit Cisco.com to order direct from Cisco or
locate a partner. Search on “Advanced Collaboration Architecture Specialization (ACAS)” or “Master
Collaboration” to find a certified unified communications partner in your local area.

Table 2. Ordering Cisco Business Edition 7000 Platform Models

Part Number Description

BE7H-M6-K9 Cisco Business Edition 7000H Svr (M6), Export Restricted SW

BE7H-M6-XU Cisco Business Edition 7000H Svr (M6), Export Unrestricted SW

BE7M-M6-K9 Cisco Business Edition 7000M Svr (M6), Export Restricted SW

BE7M-M6-XU Cisco Business Edition 7000M Svr (M6), Export Unrestricted SW

Cisco Services
Cisco Unified Communications Services help you accelerate cost savings and productivity gains associated with
deploying Cisco Unified Communications in your network. Delivered by Cisco and our certified partners, our
portfolio of deployment and technical support services is based on proven methodologies for unifying voice,
video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks.

Our unique lifecycle approach to these services can help you provide your users with powerful new ways to
collaborate with co-workers, partners, and customers across any workspace to accelerate business advantage.

To learn more, please visit https://www.cisco.com/go/ucservices.

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For more information
To learn more about Cisco Business Edition 7000 Solutions, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/be7000.

To learn more about designing virtualized solutions, visit

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/uc_system/virtualization/cisco-collaboration-
virtualization.html and https://www.cisco.com/go/quotecollab.

To learn more about resources for Cisco channel partners, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/bepartner.

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Document history
New or Revised Topic Described In Date

Updated for Support information of December 15, 2022

www.cisco.com/go/be6000
● end of life bulletins,
● appliance hardware refresh www.cisco.com/go/be7000
● changes to virtualization software Virtualization documentation at
licensing. www.cisco.com/go/virtualized-collaboration

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