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I came across this issue with one of  our customer last week where a call was coming in to receptionist at Site ‘A’ but she was not able to transfer the call to someone at Site ‘B’. They had Centralized deployment and all phones on branch sites were registered to Central site. The call was [...]

Came across an MoH issue for a customer where the file was missing from Subscriber. As you may be aware that an MoH file should always be uploaded across the cluster on each server to work properly. If you only upload the MoH file on Publisher then it won’t be replicated on other servers. You [...]

Came across a complex situation where customer was using this SIP trunk as an alternative to ISDN-30 (if all channels are used or if ISDN goes down). The ISDN-30 link was working fine but they had issues on SIP trunk (how many times I have heard this?) …. their outbound calls over SIP were using [...]

The Cisco High-Density Packet Voice Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Module (PVDM2) enables Cisco Integrated Services Routers to provide high-density voice connectivity, conferencing, and transcoding capabilities in Cisco IP Communications solutions. PVDM stands for packet voice DSP module; it is the Cisco product name for the module that provides digital signal processing resources to a system. [...]

If there is already a MOH file running at the CME router, follow the below steps to change it to a new one. Sh flash: 55        7200 Dec 09 2008 10:53:52 Pulse1.raw 56        4000 Dec 09 2008 10:53:54 Ring1.raw 57        4000 Dec 09 2008 10:53:54 Ring2.raw 58        4000 Dec 09 2008 10:53:54 Ring3.raw 59        4000 [...]

MOH file uploaded on Pub under MOH Audio source with number # 5. Customer came back saying that he cannot hear the new announcement as per the new file. I tried to select the file under UDP, Phone and even at Service parameter but nothing worked. I could see the file fine at the Publisher. [...]

Upload the music file 1:    First have your music file recorded as an 8 Khz, 8 bit, mono ulaw encoded WAV file. 2:    The next step is to get your music file on to the Call Manager server. Copy your music file in to this folder on your call manager server ‘c:\Program Files\Cisco\MOH\DropMOHAudioSourceFilesHere’. When you [...]

MOH Issues and Resolution

Posted: June 29, 2010 in Media Resources

There are quite a few issues which you may come across while configuring Music on Hold. As of SRST/ITS 3.0 an IOS branch gateway has the capability to function as a multicast Music on Hold (MoH) resource. This allows for a distributed MoH design where MoH at remote sites is provided by the local gateway, [...]

Music on hold is a very useful feature in Call manager which is used for streaming music when you put a PSTN phone or an internal IP phone on hold. I will discuss briefly how it is configured and how you may use CUCM to stream music from remote gateways. Go to Media Resources > [...]

To make use of DSP resources for a Conference Call, we will have to enable Conference Bridge at the gateway. Configure the following at the gateway: voice-card 0 dspfarm dsp services dspfarm sccp local Loopback0 sccp ccm 10.10.210.10 identifier 2 priority 2 version 5.0.1 sccp ccm 10.10.210.11 identifier 1 priority 1 version 5.0.1 sccp ! [...]