{"id":47283,"date":"2012-05-23T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/?p=47283"},"modified":"2016-06-27T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:19:08","slug":"cisco-callway-so-easy-even-a-caveman-can-do-it-part-2-in-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/cisco-callway-so-easy-even-a-caveman-can-do-it-part-2-in-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Callway \u2013 So Easy Even a Caveman Can Do it.. Part 2 in the series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 2 \u2013 Installing and using Callway with Video Hardware<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note: <\/em><\/strong>This is the second installment in a two part series. Click here for Part I<\/a>.\"Cisco_Callway\"<\/em><\/p>\n

If you read Part I you understand what Cisco Callway<\/a> is and why it is a great investment choice over installing your own on-premise video infrastructure so, now let me tell you how easy it is to install and use.<\/p>\n

As a product manager, I write the product descriptions on VoIP Supply.com. I read datasheets, watch tutorial videos, and find images. I sometimes help sales on compatibility of the products I manage.\u00a0 What I don\u2019t do is set up phones or install PBX\u2019s. I can tell you every speed and feed in our catalog but I don\u2019t deploy the technology myself. That\u2019s why we have technicians. So I was a little daunted when I decided that I was going to install my Cisco E20 and activate Callway on it. I start at 7am, a good 2 hours before any IT guys are onsite and I didn\u2019t want to wait. I was on my own for this one.<\/p>\n

Installing\u00a0 a Cisco E20 Desktop Video Conferencing Unit. <\/strong><\/p>\n

First I opened the Cisco E20 box and pulled it out. Then I plugged in the \"Cisco-E20\"AC power adapter to the wall.\u00a0 Lastly I connected the Ethernet cable from the E20 to the switch by my desk. At this point the E20 was on and going through a boot up process.<\/p>\n

Back to my PC.\u00a0 I agreed to the terms and conditions on a Callway Standard subscription by following the links the in the email it sent me. Once I hit \u2018accept\u2019 I was emailed my credentials. My credentials included my video telephone #, video email address, and a temporary password.<\/p>\n

Turning back to the Cisco E20, once the boot process was over it asked me what language I wanted to proceed in. Once I choose English a configuration wizard popped up. In order, I had to complete 3 fields:<\/p>\n

(1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Infrastructure.\u00a0 I had to choose from a drop down box which infrastructure I was connecting to. Luckily for me Callway was an option.\u00a0 I chose Callway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Username.\u00a0 I just got this info in my email from Callway, so I enter that.<\/p>\n

(3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Password.\u00a0 Ditto. I just entered this right from my Callway email.<\/p>\n

I then clicked CONTINUE and I was ready to make a call.\u00a0 VoIP Supply has a LifeSize Room 220 end point in our conference room so I dialed the address of that system and I was immediately looking at the empty conference room.<\/p>\n

I was so proud that I had my desktop video conferencing system up and running before IT even got in.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Installing Cisco Callway Jabber<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two days a week I work from home.\u00a0 Just as I chose my \u2018work from home days\u2019 my boss decided that one of them was going to be the day that all our team meetings are held.\u00a0 So I either needed to change my work from home days or find a way to join. Since I had been using the Cisco E20 to talk to a coworker who sometimes works remotely, I decided to use video conferencing as my connection method (goodbye working all day in my PJ\u2019s!)<\/p>\n

I did not have budget to install a video conferencing system in my home office so instead I signed up for Cisco Jabber.\u00a0 Cisco Jabber is a desktop client for video conferencing. My laptop is equipped with a webcam already so I just need a microphone and\u00a0speakers.\u00a0 I use a Phoenix Audio Duet Executive as my desktop speakerphone at home already and it is USB so I connected that to my laptop for\u00a0speakers and a microphone.<\/p>\n

Once I accepted the terms and conditions on a one year subscription to Jabber I received the email with my username, password, and a link to download the Jabber Client. I clicked on the link to download the client and was then prompted to enter my username and password. Once I entered this, the call window came up and I was ready to make calls.\u00a0 I now call into our weekly meetings from my Cisco Jabber account on my laptop using my webcam and Phoenix Audio Duet speakerphone.<\/p>\n

Using Callway MeetMe Bridge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once I was using Jabber and Callway Standard for a few weeks I got adventurous and wanted to bring more than just 2 of us on a video call. VoIP Supply then signed up for a MeetMe6 subscription allowing up to 6 of us to participate in a video call.\u00a0 Once I agreed to the T&C\u2019s of the one year contract I was sent an email with a video address to call into.\u00a0 I can give this address to my 6 coworkers at VoIP Supply (or customers or vendors) and they can call in at any time.\u00a0 I can also use this bridge as a voice conference bridge which is cool because sometimes all our conference bridges through our PBX are being used.\u00a0 It really was that easy.<\/p>\n

Now, if someone with little technical hands-on background can buy, install, and use Cisco Callway video conferencing \u2013 ANYONE CAN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part 2 \u2013 Installing and using Callway with Video Hardware Note: This is the second installment in a two part series. Click here for Part I. If you read Part I you understand what Cisco Callway is and why it is a great investment choice over installing your own on-premise video infrastructure so, now let […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1028,1030,1049,1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-looks","category-how-to-installations","category-video-conferencing","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47283"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187403,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47283\/revisions\/187403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}