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Cisco Business Edition 6000s, All-In-One Smart Collaboration System for the SMB

10 May 2016

Do More with Less, The Cisco BE6000 family provides complete collaboration capabilities and services that bring people closer together on any device, from any location, at any time. Its comprehensive, open, and interoperable architecture lets small & midsize businesses fulfill specific needs securely and efficiently with less hardware and reduced IT complexity and costs.
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE 6000) is designed for small to midsized companies with a work-force of up to 1000 workers. The standard features include high-quality voice and video communications, instant messaging capabilities, multi-user conferencing, and contacts at your fingertips, all incorporated into one device.

The BE6000s
Give your employees all the tools they need for rich collaboration anywhere in one complete, affordable, easy-to-own solution. It’s great for smaller environments, and built to scale with changing business needs.
Cisco Business Edition 6000s, All-In-One Smart Collaboration System for the SMB
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Your employees are your most powerful business resource. And when you bring them together to share their knowledge, creativity, and experience, their value soars. Studies show that better collaboration leads to improved productivity and profitability. That’s why so many businesses are focusing on helping their employees collaborate wherever, whenever, and however they want.
Cisco® Business Edition 6000S (BE6000S) provides a simple, affordable way to put powerful collaboration in reach of everyone in your company. This complete, all-in-one solution lets your employees work together using the industry’s best communications features, all from a single, integrated platform. It makes it easy for them to reach the people and resources they need from any location, using the devices they prefer. Designed specifically for smaller, entry-level communications requirements, the Cisco BE6000S simplifies operations with one centrally managed platform that is fast and easy to install, deploy, manage, and use. So there’s less to manage, less space and power usage, and less cost.
Toward a More Connected Workforce

We’re living in a world that’s more interconnected than ever before. Your collaboration may not be limited to your own company. More than ever, people are working across and beyond their own organizations - with customers, colleagues, and business partners.
But keeping employees connected with the people and resources they need to do their best work, on the devices they choose, can be challenging. Your phone system might be maxed out and unable to support more users. You might be running and managing multiple networks from different manufacturers. And you might not be ready to securely support mobile users who want to use their own devices at work. Additionally, you might be paying too much to maintain a system that isn't able to keep pace with your employees' and customers' service expectations.
To be successful, you need an affordable communications solution that lets you start simple and grow as you go. One that lets you smoothly transition from your outdated technology into business-transforming experiences, without disrupting your employees and your business processes. And when your business needs change, your solution should make it easy to adapt and cost-effectively enable you to support new users, devices, and applications.

Key Features

Cisco BE6000S is an all-in-one platform that provides essential communications capabilities including routing, gateway, voice, video, messaging, instant messaging and presence, conferencing, and paging services, enabling every user to connect and communicate from any device and location the way they prefer. The solution comes preconfigured, making it fast and easy to install and deploy, rapidly reducing the cost of ownership for companies with smaller IT staff. It’s ideal for small environments that need basic, entry-level voice and IP telephony capabilities, together with powerful, easy-to-use collaboration tools.
  • Support for a rich variety of applications and endpoints: Cisco BE6000S is built on the industry-leading Cisco Unified Communications Manager architecture - the core of Cisco Collaboration solutions. This call-control platform brings together and delivers key communications services such as voice, video, messaging, instant messaging and presence, mobility, and conferencing across your business - so you can connect every user with the exact tools and resources they need to be effective in their jobs.
  • Simple management and deployment: Cisco Prime™ Collaboration Provisioning puts the “simple” in Cisco BE6000S. This centralized management tool makes it fast and easy for you to install, maintain, and manage the solution. Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning comes embedded in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, and simplifies provisioning of users and services so you can get operational right away, while keeping costs in control. It eases routine management tasks like moves, adds, and changes, freeing your IT team to focus on more important work.
  • Built to grow and evolve with your business: We’re living in a world of constant change, and Cisco BE6000S is designed to scale up as new business needs develop. It supports up to 150 users and 300 devices across multiple locations. We support further growth with our Business Edition 6000M and Business Edition 6000H models (BE6000M and BE6000H), which allow you to smoothly scale to 1000 users, 2500 devices, and 100 contact center agents when the time is right. Each BE6000 platform model is designed on a simple, single‑server approach that fits businesses with limited IT resources and budgets. You can also add a second system for redundancy to ensure business continuity and additional peace of mind.

How You Benefit
  • Improve staff productivity with powerful collaboration tools.
  • Bring employees and customers closer together with face-to-face interactions to accelerate decision making.
  • Respond quickly to users’ increasing demands to work securely from anywhere with any device.
  • Increase end-user satisfaction and loyalty by enabling consistent experiences.
  • Get the most from your IT spending with the capability to run multiple applications concurrently on a choice of single-server platforms.
  • Simplify system management and maintenance with one easy-to-use interface.

The BE6000M Family... scale to 1000 users

BE 6000 is facilitated by virtualization technology and it merges several applications into one accessible platform. It allows for a growth in the return on investment (ROI) while allowing for a reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) due to the adaptable and accommodating design of the system. It easily permits expansion with the growth of the company, while upgrades are simple to implement due to changing company needs.
The available features of the BE 6000 are what every midsized company expects and depends on in today’s business world. The communications are enterprise-class with all features integrated into the platform. With years of experience and systems that have been proven to work, Cisco has designed the BE 6000 to meet their world-class standards and achieve their promised results. With the BE 6000, customers can design the system to suit the corporate needs without difficulty, while providing the best options, both standard and premium, to cater to specific business requirements
BE 6000 consists of the following foundational elements:
  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager
  • IM & Presence
  • Cisco Unity® Connection
  • Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager Business Edition
  • Cisco UC Virtualization Hypervisor
  • Cisco Unified Computing System C200 M2/C220 M3 Rack-mount server.

Following applications can be added to Cisco Business Edition 6000 solution.
  • Cisco Unified Contact Center Express
  • Cisco Unified Attendant Consoles
  • Cisco Emergency Responder
  • Cisco Telepresence Video Communication Server
Right Capabilities, Right Price — Just Right
Built on the proven and trusted Cisco Unified Communications architecture, the Cisco BE6000 family is: • Complete: Provides end-to-end collaboration capabilities for all users • Affordable: Right-priced and immediately reduces operational costs • Simple: Streamlines administration with unified management, provisioning, and automated licensing • Interoperable: Supports Cisco and approved third-party business applications and endpoints • Highly available: Optional redundancy and survivable branch office provide peace of mind • Scalable: Easily upgradable with the built-in capability to grow and change

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