Cisco Cisco Expressway Maintenance Manual
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.
Unified 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.
CM, and an Expressway-E deployed in the DMZ and configured with a traversal zone to an Expressway-C.
Cisco Expressway Administrator Guide (X8.1)
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Introduction
About the Cisco Expressway