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Redstone vs Cisco: Migration Options for Aging Cisco PBX Estates
Cisco has served enterprise telephony for decades, but aging platforms face rising support costs, licensing complexity, and eventual end-of-life. Redstone offers a practical migration path for organizations looking to modernize without losing control.
Why Organizations Move
Rising maintenance costs, complex licensing, skills scarcity, and the desire for simpler SIP trunking and multi-site networking drive Cisco replacement projects.
Phased Migration
Rather than replacing everything at once, deploy Redstone REX systems alongside Cisco infrastructure. Use gateways to bridge analog devices and legacy trunks. Migrate users in groups while keeping Cisco available as fallback.
Simpler Licensing and Management
Redstone licensing scales with users without the complexity of Cisco's feature and user-class licensing. Centralized management reduces administrative overhead.
Preserving Investment
SIP-compatible Cisco endpoints can often be reused on the new platform. Analog devices connect through RGW gateways, avoiding forced endpoint replacement.
Redstone provides migration planning and configuration mapping for organizations transitioning from Cisco platforms.
Redstone Systems, Inc. founded in Delaware, USA in December 2002, has been the ODM vendor for many well-known communications companies, serving the Southeast Asian market. In 2020, Redstone Systems will begin to return to the North America market with its self-developed brand.
Redstone has a complete product line of intelligent voice gateways, providing IP-PBXs, analog VoIP gateways (FXS/FXO), digital VoIP gateways (E1/T1), border appliances, and session boundary controllers (SBCs).
With advanced technology in digital signal processor (DSP), speech coding and speech processing, as well as efficient operational tools such as cloud remote management, auto provisioning, Redstone gateways are widely used in markets of enterprise communications, cloud communications, call centers, operators’ IMS/SIP trunks, bringing users friendly, efficient and reliable communication experience.
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