The Cisco Unified CME system supports features you would come to expect from a time-division multiplexing (TDM) PBX or key system. These features can be divided into four categories: system, phone, trunk, and voice mail features. The major features in each category are included in the following list (current as of CME Version 4.3):

System Features

• Account codes and Call Detail Record (CDR) field entry
• Callback busy subscriber and camp-on
• Per-phone call coverage rules
• Call hold and retrieve
• Call park: personal and directed
• Call transfer and park recall
• Call park assign to extension
• Call pickup directed
• Call pickup local group
• Call pickup explicit group
• Call transfer: consultative and blind
• Call waiting
• Computer telephony integration (CTI) with Microsoft CRM and Outlook using Cisco IOS Software Telephony Services Provider (TSP)
• E911 with two emergency location numbers per zone, unlimited zones per site
• Eight-party impromptu conferencing
• Directory services using XML
• Hunt groups: sequential, circular, parallel (blast), and longest idle
• Hunt-group dynamic login and logout
• Hunt-groups statistics: daily and hourly
• Intercom
• Meet-me conferencing (32 party)
• Music on Hold (MOH): internal or external source
• Night service bell or call forwarding
• Overlay extensions for enhanced call coverage
• Called-name display for overlay extensions
• Paging: internal through IP phones or to external system
• Per-call caller ID blocking
• Secondary dial tone
• Standards-based network call transfer and call forwarding using H.450
• Additional system speed-dial option through XML service
• Time-of-day and day-of-week call blocking
• Customizable called-name display
• Support of SRST fallback service phone auto-registration
• Basic automatic call distributor (B-ACD) (three queues) with auto-attendant and call statistics
• Display of number of calls in queue on IP phone
• Agent login and logout of B-ACD hunt group
• Integration with Cisco Unified Contact Center Express 5.0 for advanced call center features with support for up to 50 agents, agent supervisors, call recording, silent monitoring, and reporting features
• Secure Real-Time Protocol (SRTP), providing media encryption for calls on the IP network
• Secure voice IP phone certificate authentication and provisioning plus secure device signaling using Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Phone Features

• Maximum 250 phones per system
• Up to 34 line appearances per phone
• Attendant console functions using Cisco Unified IP Phone Expansion Module 7914
• Fast transfer: blind or consult
• Busy lamp
• Silent ringing options
• Automatic line selection for outbound calls
• Call forward on busy, no answer, and all (internal or external)
• Call-forward-all restriction control
• Do not disturb (DND)
• Feature ring with DND set
• IP phone display of DND state
• Dial-plan pattern load on SIP phones
• Diversion of calls directly to voice mail
• Customization of softkeys
• Enable and disable call-waiting notification per line
• Call waiting with overlay directory number
• Call-waiting ring
• Dual or 8 call line appearances per button
• After-hours toll-bar override
• Auto-answer with headset
• European date formats
• Hook flash passthrough across analog PSTN trunks
• Idle URL: periodically push messages or graphics on IP phones
• Last-number redial
• Live record to Cisco Unity Express mailbox
• Local name directory lookup
• On-hook dialing
• Station speed dial with configuration changes from IP phone
• System speed dial for 10,000 numbers
• Silent and feature ring options
• SIP-based line-side subscribe, providing basic presence of phone status
• Transfer to voice mail softkey
• Call barge with privacy on shared lines
• Access features using softkeys or feature access codes
• Remote teleworker IP phone support
• Dynamic hunt-group join or leave
• Support for analog phones using Cisco ATA 186 Analog Telephone Adapter or Cisco VG224 Analog Phone Gateway in SCCP mode
• Support for fax machines on Foreign Exchange Station (FXS) ports or ATA using H.323, SCCP, or SIP
• XML application services on Cisco Unified IP display phones
• Station-to-station video with voice using Cisco Unified Video Advantage or Cisco Unified IP Phone 7985G endpoints
• Extension mobility within the single site
• Wideband audio (G.722) and iLBC codec

Trunk Features

• Analog Foreign Exchange Office (FXO) loop and ground start
• Ear and mouth (E&M)
• Basic Rate Interface (BRI) and Primary Rate Interface (PRI) support (NI2, 4ESS, 5ESS, EuroISDN, DMS100, and DMS250) and several other switch types currently supported in Cisco IOS Software
• Caller ID name and number
• Automatic number identification (ANI)
• Digital trunk support (T1/E1)
• Direct inward dialing (DID)
• Direct outward dialing
• E1 R2 support
• Dedicated trunk mapping to phone button
• H.323 trunks with H.450 support
• H450.12 automatic detection of H.450 support for remote H.323 endpoints
• H.323-to-H.323 hairpin call routing for non-H.450-compliant H.323 endpoints
• SIP trunks and RFC 2833 support
• Transcoding with G.711, G.729a, and iLBC
• ISDN Q.SIG supplementary services of basic calls, including call forwarding busy, no answer, all; calling name and line identification (CLIP and CNIP); connected line and name identification (COLP and CONP); message waiting indicator (MWI) and message center support; MWI passthrough QSIG-to-TDM voice mail

Voice Mail Features

• Integrated voice mail and auto-attendant solution with Cisco Unity Express
• Integration with Cisco Unity Voice Mail and Cisco Unity Unified Messaging, or third-party voice mail integration (H.323, SIP, or dual-tone multifrequency [DTMF])

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