Cisco Cisco Expressway Maintenance Manual
Introduction
This section provides an overview of the Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server.
About the Cisco Expressway
Cisco Expressway is designed specifically for comprehensive collaboration services provided through Cisco Unified
Communications Manager. It features established firewall-traversal technology and helps redefine traditional
enterprise collaboration boundaries, supporting our vision of any-to-any collaboration.
Communications Manager. It features established firewall-traversal technology and helps redefine traditional
enterprise collaboration boundaries, supporting our vision of any-to-any collaboration.
As its primary features and benefits, Cisco Expressway:
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Offers proven and highly secure firewall-traversal technology to extend your organizational reach.
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Helps enable business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and business-to-cloud-service-provider
connections.
connections.
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Provides session-based access to comprehensive collaboration for remote workers, without the need for a
separate VPN client.
separate VPN client.
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Supports a wide range of devices with Cisco Jabber for smartphones, tablets, and desktops.
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Complements bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies and policies for remote and mobile workers.
The Expressway is deployed as a pair: an Expressway-C with a trunk and line-side connection to Unified CM, and an
Expressway-E deployed in the DMZ and configured with a traversal zone to an Expressway-C.
Expressway-E deployed in the DMZ and configured with a traversal zone to an Expressway-C.
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