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Unified CM Express is a router-based call agent that scales up to 240 phones, depending on platform capacity. The
system extends the benefits of Unified Communications to small businesses.
Unified CM Express supports a wide range of TP Phone, system, and trunk features, as well as voice-mail integration with
Unity, Unity Express, and third-party systems using H.323 or analog DTMF signaling. For a complete feature list, refer to
the Unified Communications Manager Express 4.2 Data Sheets on cisco.com.
Unified CM Express runs on the ISR platforms, including the 2800 and 3800 series, and on the 3700 series Multiservice
Access Routers. The appropriate IOS IP Voice feature set, along with IP Phone licenses and firmware, and flash and
RAM appropriate for the install are required. The optional GUI files may be installed for simplified configuration and
administration but are not required.
Unified CM Express supports all current-generation IP Phones.
Defining Ephone and Ephone-DN
An ephone is an Ethernet phone, and an ephone-dn is an Ethernet phone directory number. In CM Express, an ephone is a
logical configuration and settings for a physical phone, and the ephone-dn is a destination number that can be assigned to
multiple ephones.
An ephone-dn always has a primary directory number, and it may have a secondary one as well. When you create an
ephone-dn, you can specify it as single line (the default) or dual line. A single line can terminate one call; a dual line can
terminate two calls at the same time. This is necessary for call waiting, consultative transfer, and conferencing features
to work. When you create an ephone-dn, the router automatically creates POTS dial peers to match. The following
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configuration creates a dual-line ephone-dn with a primary and secondary number. The number 20 in the configuration is
the tag, which is simply a unique identifier:
Router(config)#ephone-dn 20 d u a l - l i ne
Router(config-ephone-dn)#number 5309 secondary 8675309
There is a maximum number of ephone-dns that a given platform will support; this is controlled by the hardware capacity
and by licensing. The max-dn <max-dn-value> command must be set to create ephone-dns; the default is zero. Be aware
that the router immediately reserves memory for the number of dns you specify, whether they are created or not; you
should configure only what you will actually need.
An ephone is the logical configuration of a physical phone. Each ephone is given a tag to uniquely identify it. The MAC
address of the phone ties it to the ephone configuration. CM Express will detect all phone models except the 7914
sidecar, which must be specified manually. Each different model of IP Phone has a different number of buttons, to which
various functions can be applied; the top button is always numbered " 1 , " with the others following in numerical order.
The button command allows you to specify which button does what. The following configuration creates a basic ephone
for a 7960 with a 7914 sidecar; the button 1:20 command assigns button 1 the dn (5309) assigned to ephone-dn 20 from
the previous example:
r o u t e r ( c o n f i g ) # ephone 20
r o u t e r ( c o n f i g - e p h o n e ) # mac-address AAAA.BBBB.CCCC
r o u t e r ( c o n f i g - e p h o n e ) # type 7960 addon 1 7914
r o u t e r ( c o n f i g - e p h o n e ) # button 1:20
Types of ephone-dns
Six types of ephone-dns are configurable in CM Express:
• Single line: This ephone-dn creates a single virtual port. Although you can specify a secondary number, the phone
can terminate only one call at a time, so it cannot support call waiting. It should be used when there is one phone
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button for each PSTN line that comes into the system. It is useful for things like paging, intercom, call-park slots,
MoH feeds, and MWI.
Router(config)#ephone-dn 1
Router(config-ephone-dn)#number 1001
• Dual line: The dual-line ephone-dn can support two call terminations at the same time and can have a primary and a
secondary number. It should be used when a single button supports call features like call waiting, transfer, and
conferencing. It should not be used for lines dedicated to intercom, paging, MoH feeds, MWI, or call park. It can be
used in combination with single-line ephone-dns on the same phone.
Router(config)#ephone-dn 2 d u a l - l i ne
Router(config-ephone-dn)#number 1002
• Dual number: This ephone-dn has a primary and secondary number, making it possible to dial two separate
numbers to reach the phone. It can be either a single- or dual-line ephone-dn; it should be used when you want to
have two numbers for the same button without using more than one ephone-dn.
• Shared ephone-dn: The same ephone-dn and number appears on two separate phones as a shared line, meaning that
either phone can use the line, but once in use the other cannot then make calls on that line. The line will ring on all
phones that share the ephone-dn, but only one can pick up. If the call is placed on hold, any one of the other phones
sharing the line can pick it up.
• Multiple ephone-dns on one or more ephones: This configuration allows multiple calls to the same extension to be
handled simultaneously on a single phone; for example, using three dual-line ephone-dns with the same number will
terminate six calls on the phone. By using multiple ephone-dns on multiple phones, all the phones can answer the
same number. This is not a shared line because the phones will ring in succession, and a call on hold can be
answered only by the phone that placed it on hold. Controlling the hunting behavior (the order in which buttons or
phones ring) is done with the preference and huntstop commands, as explained in the "Hunting Configuration"
section that follows.
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• Overlay ephone-dn: An overlay consists of two or more ephone-dns (up to 25) applied to the same button; all these
ephone-dns must be either single or dual line. (You can't mix the types.) The call coverage is similar to a shared-line
setup, except that a call to the number on one phone does not block the use of the same number on another phone.
You can overlay up to 10 lines on a single button and then configure the same overlay set on 10 phones, with the
result that all 10 phones could answer calls to the same number. The button command with the overlay separator
creates the overlay set. The overlay separator can be o, which designates an overlay set without call waiting, or c,
which designates call waiting. The command button lo30,31>32,33,34,35 c o n f j g u r e s ephone-dns 30, 31, 32, 33, 34,
and 35 on button 1 without call waiting.
Hunting Configuration
Hunting allows a call to search for an available line to ring. This is commonly used in environments where call coverage
is needed to answer the same number, such as a call center or help desk. The preference command sets the order in
which the call will be tried on a list of ephone-dns; the huntstop command stops the hunting when it reaches that
ephone-dn; from this point, it is typical to send the call to voice mail.
The default is huntstop enabled. This can prevent calls from rolling over to the next ephone-dn, so the no huntstop
command must be used to allow the desired hunting behavior.
If dual-line ephone-dns are configured, the default behavior is for the call to hunt from the first line to the second. This
causes the same phone to ring twice for the same call.
The following configuration creates an ephone with two ephone-dns that both terminate calls to 1003. The huntstop
configuration sends calls to the first channel of ephone-dn 3, then the second channel of ephone-dn 3, then the first
channel of ephone-dn 4, then the second channel of ephone-dn 4.
Router(config)#ephone-dn 3 d u a l - l i ne
Router(config-ephone-dn)#number 1003
Router(config-ephone-dn)#preference 0
Router(config-ephone-dn)#no huntstop
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Router(config)#ephone-dn 4 d u a l - l i ne
Router(config-ephone-dn)#number 1003
Router(config-ephone-dn)#preference 1
Router(config-ephone-dn)#huntstop
Router(config)#ephone 3
Router(config-ephone)#mac-address AAAA.BBBB.CCCC
Router(config-ephone)#button 1:3 2:4
This is not necessarily the behavior we want; it is more common to use the second channel of an ephone-dn for transfer,
call waiting, or conferencing. We can force the call to hunt from channel 1 of the first ephone-dn directly to channel 1 of
the second ephone-dn instead, using the hunststop channel command. The following configuration will send the call
from channel 1 of ephone-dn 5 (on button 2) to channel 1 of ephone-dn 6 (on button 3), then to channel 2 of ephone-dn 6
(also on button 3):
Router(config)#ephone-dn 5 d u a l - l i ne
Router(config-ephone-dn#number 1004
Router(config-ephone-dn#preference 0
Router(config-ephone-dn#huntstop channel
Router(config)#ephone-dn 6 d u a l - l i ne
Router(config-ephone-dn#number 1004
Router(config-ephone-dn#preference 1
Router(config-ephone-dn#no huntstop channel
Router(config)#ephone 4
Router(config-ephone#mac-address AAAA.BBBB.CCCC
Router(config-ephone#button 2:5 3:6
In a call-coverage scenario, we would want the call to hunt to an agent who is not already on the phone. Here we configure
the call to hunt from channel 1 on the first phone to channel 1 on the second phone:
Router(config)#ephone-dn 5 d u a l - l i ne
Router(config-ephone-dn#number 1004
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Router(config-ephone-dn#preference 0
Router(config-ephone-dn#huntstop channel
Router(config)#ephone-dn 6 d u a l - l i ne
Router(config-ephone-dn#number 1004
Router(config-ephone-dn#preference 1
Router(config-ephone-dn#huntstop channel
Router(config)#ephone 4
Router(config-ephone#mac-address AAAA.BBBB.CCCC
Router(config-ephone#button 2:5
Router(config)#ephone 5
Router(config-ephone#mac-address DDDD.EEEE.FFFF
Router(config-ephone#button 2:6
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