Cisco ACI vs Skype for Business

• The REST API allows your to programmatically interact with the network and make massive changes very quickly when needed.
• The API allows you to tie together Server Provisioning tools, storage provisioning tools, into an orchestration platform such as Ansible to streamline new deployments and builds.
• New Deployments are extremely simple once you've worked out your programatic deployment process. We can deploy new clients/tenants in seconds rather than days or weeks like it used to take.
• Replacing failed switches/apics/etc is also extremely easy.
• Tightly couple the underlying Network Infrastructure to VMWare Deployments to allow VMs to move anywhere in the datacenter at the drop of a hat.

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• Group Chat option allows multiple people to have a conversation away from the main presentation
• Integration with Microsoft Office allows easy usage of excel, PowerPoint and other MS programs
• Easy calendar integration for Microsoft Outlook
• Mobile interface is very easy and intuitive

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• Cost is always a challenge and ACI is no different.
• The linkage between ACI and Tetration has been rebranded since the initial marketeering of it and this has caused confusion and in some cases diminished the business case as a result.
• The fact that Cisco has developed multiple Orchestrators of their differing network stacks causes issues when trying to pull together a singular approach to orchestration across a Cisco e-2-e network in an Enterprise.

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• Reporting, especially if you are in need of knowing who logged in and participated in a session
• The browser-based application (for those that didn't want to download the desktop app) always seemed to have issues for our clients in other locations of the country
• Call clarity was frequently not good, and sometimes the meeting organizer/host couldn't even get audio connected.

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• So far we havent been able to leverage al the positives of the ACI infrastructure like Open API and RBAC so it's difficult to comment.
• A negative I would think of is the change in the design implementation for Datacenter Interconnectivity.

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• With federation with external partners, it has helped us close deals in terms of sales.
• It is a stable product that has had very few outages, which has kept end users happy with minimal service interruptions.
• Meetings have high security compliance which meets our organization's security requirements

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