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Webex Calling

Score8.8 out of 10

474 Reviews and Ratings

What is Webex Calling?

Webex Calling is Cisco’s flagship cloud calling solution with over 12 million users worldwide. It delivers an enterprise-grade calling experience that enables customers to replace PBX hardware with a cloud calling solution. Webex Calling's connectivity and collaboration experience includes calling, meetings, messaging, contact center, and integrated devices.

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Top Performing Features

  • Participant roles & permissions

    Administrators can grant users different levels of access to conferences, as moderators, presenters, attendees, or participants. Permissions can be set for individual users, or based on user role/group.

    Category average: 8.7

  • Record meetings / events

    Meetings and webinars can be recorded for playback.

    Category average: 9.1

  • Live chat

    Participants can use one-on-one and group instant messaging to communicate privately or selectively during meetings.

    Category average: 9.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Online Fax

    Ability to send and receive faxes over the internet

    Category average: 8.3

  • Message alerts

    Receive SMS and email message notifications for voice and fax messages

    Category average: 8.4

  • Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

    IVR is a phone menu allowing callers to interact with the system through voice and keypad

    Category average: 7.7

Who Buys & Uses Webex Calling

Pros

  • High call quality with clear voice and video, low latency, and minimal drops.
  • Ease of use for setup, navigation, and implementation for both domestic and international calls.
  • Robust security measures including encryption and compliance with security standards.

Cons

  • Mobile application performance issues, including dropped calls, background noise, and sluggishness.
  • Outdated user interface and dashboard design.
  • Call quality and connectivity challenges, particularly in low-bandwidth environments.

Best Calling collaboration system.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it to call customers and colleagues from my phone and from my laptop. I can always have the list of calls made on the go from my phone, and the sync between laptop and phone is great. It can be used to control external calls so that we can stay on the network without using PSTN via extension routing.

Pros

  • Simplicity of dialing out, especially using the Webex app.
  • Setting up devices and configuring users with devices.
  • Setting up queues and a group.
  • Creating virtual numbers that can have inboxes.
  • Send emails of voicemail with transcription.
  • A central location for all the feature configurations.

Cons

  • Definitely on reporting and tracking calls.
  • Call trace and details path - need similar to RTMT.
  • Wish to have a diagram that shows the path of a call.

Return on Investment

  • Positive - able to access it on the go and consistent product.
  • Positive, great quality and easy to access and utilize.
  • Positive, easy to configure and update.
  • Easy to acquire numbers and apply them to the tenant.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)

Other Software Used

Webex App, Webex Contact Center, Webex Connect

Webex Calling for the Win

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Webex Calling to simply our overhead management of VOIP in our environment. We also have many multiple remote sites utilizing our on-prem USC box, so moving to Webex Calling has given us flexibility.

Pros

  • Management Dashboard
  • Unified VM and VOIP management system dashboard
  • Adding hardware

Cons

  • Providing a template tab or walkthrough for setting up new phones
  • Upgrading firmware at specific times.

Return on Investment

  • Easy of onboarding and transition
  • Moving off of legacy POTS services to cloud direct
  • Logs and troubleshooting

Alternatives Considered

Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000) and Cisco UCS Series

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams Rooms, Neat Bar

Webex Calling plays well with others

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I support multiple customers, most of whom are long-time on-prem users, who are migrating some or all of their calling to the cloud. I have one who is exclusively using workspaces to provide multi-vendor-based conferencing services to a nationwide clientele. I have another customer who is migrating remote sites to Cisco Call in MS Teams for flexibility. And I have a third customer who uses Webex exclusively.

Pros

  • Integration via Local Gateway for CUCM and/or local PSTN access
  • New offerings for cloud PSTN services is a game changer
  • Standardization on PhoneOS for interoperability with on-prem solutions

Cons

  • Confusing menus - way worse than CUCM
  • Menu items that regularly move which is super annoying
  • I know how to do all sorts of individual engineering tasks, but understanding and designing an overall dialplan is not clear or taught/explained well. Additionally, the many individual components are so scattered it is difficult to have a comprehensive view of the dialplan.
  • CSV management of components is a good start, but something more along the lines of the CUCM BAT Bulk Edit feature would be nice.

Return on Investment

  • Our customer providing nation-wide mutli-vendor conferencing services to their clients, with Webex as their PBX host is thrilled with their investment in the technology. Their customers are happy and we have been engaged with follow-on business with this customer.
  • Our customer using Cisco Call in MS Teams has had so far a mixed experience with Webex. We have fulfilled our tasking on this project, but there have been so many small issues (dialplan, voicemail integration, mobile device functionality) that our ongoing engagement to satisfy the customer is now putting us over budget.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Zoom Workplace, Cisco Session Border Controller, AudioCodes Mediant Enterprise Session Border Controllers (E-SBCs), FortiVoice

Webex Calling Really Helped Us.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Webex Calling as our primary PSTN/voice telephony service. We have 2100+ employees who have voice services and over 950 Workspaces.

Pros

  • Troubleshooting tools.
  • Voice quality.
  • Incoming AI features.

Cons

  • More information available for service provider needs when orgs upgrade to WxC.

Return on Investment

  • Migrating to WxC has been helpful. We no longer have to maintain on-prem servers, certs, etc.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)

Other Software Used

Webex Contact Center, Variphy, Singlewire InformaCast

Cisco Webex Calling.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Doesn’t give me a complete report of incoming calls and outgoing calls?

Pros

  • Able to pickup calls remotely from anywhere.
  • User Friendly.
  • Simple to use on the PC.

Cons

  • Time log spent on calling.
  • Voice recording.

Return on Investment

  • Multiple calls can be handled.

Other Software Used

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