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Cisco Unified Border Element (Cube) - Cisco BE6000 Design Manual

Collaboration edge

Design manual - 107 pages

Introduction

Pre-deployment Checklist and Tasks

Deploy MRA and B2B Collaboration

Contents

Deploy CUBE

etc thus, extending the rich media services beyond the boundaries of the enterprise. Cisco Expressway

Series consists of Cisco Expressway-E and Cisco Expressway-C.

Figure 4. Business to Business Collaboration

Cisco Expressway-E acts as a traversal server and allows secure communication through to your business

and provides other services, such as DNS SRV lookup.

Cisco Expressway-C acts as the traversal client for Cisco Expressway-E (required in all Cisco Expressway

E deployments). It acts as a video gateway providing interworking with third party industry standard H.264

SVC, H.323, AVC devices & systems (including Microsoft Lync 2013).

In this design, you create separate traversal zones one for mobile and remote access and for business-to-

business video communications.

Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE)

Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) is Cisco's session border controller (SBC) helping enterprises

connect to Service Provider SIP trunking services. CUBE provides session control, security, interworking

and demarcation to interconnect unified communications networks and enable end-to-end voice.

Deploying CUBE is essential for routing voice calls beyond the enterprise through the IP PSTN to

customers and partners. With SIP Trunking, CUBE lowers costs, simplifies the network and extends rich

collaborative services.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (Cisco ASA)

This design uses Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance as the security appliance. The appliance is deployed in

three-port firewall mode, in which one port is connected to the inside network, another to an outside

interface, and the third to the DMZ interface. Cisco Expressway-E is connected to the DMZ interface of

Cisco ASA. Expressway-C and other collaboration components are on the inside of the Cisco ASA

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