Whiteboard Fridays: Cisco Expressway Explained
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VoiceMaxx Cisco Edition: https://www.westuc.com/managed-voice-...
Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms: https://www.westuc.com/conferencing-c...
So we've talked in the past about Cisco Expressway and what it can do. I just wanted to drill down on that a little bit and explain some of the key scenarios that are enabled by Cisco Expressway. So basically, Cisco Expressway is a way of traversing a firewall, or basically getting through a firewall.
So we've got our VoiceMaxx CE System down here. We would traditionally have a firewall around that to protect it. What that lets us do is go through that firewall, basically traverse the firewall using Cisco Expressway, all hosted by West, all in the West DC cloud. But then it enables a variety of scenarios. The one we talked about before is Spark Hybrid. Basically, Spark Hybrid lets you extend your VoiceMaxx CE investment using Expressway out into Spark scenarios like messaging and meetings.
Another one is another three-letter acronym called Mobile Remote Access, or MRA. What Mobile Remote Access means is you'd have mobile users using Cisco Jabber, or potentially mobile users using some of the more modern Cisco phones like 7800 series or 8800 series phones. They can now connect to VoiceMaxx CE without the need of a VPN. They can just go right across Expressway.
Another scenario that's enabled is CMR, yet another Cisco three-letter acronym. So CMR stands for Collaboration Meeting Rooms. These are the room systems you may see in a conference room with a camera on top of it, or it could even be a desktop video conferencing system, like a DX series. What CMR does is basically gets connected in with VoiceMaxx CE and out to the WebEx CMR cloud all using Expressway.
Then finally, another scenario that's enabled by Expressway is federation. If you have another organization that's using Jabber, and you want to federate your instant messaging and presence environment using your Jabber with their Jabber, you can do all that over a technology called XMPP. Which is actually facilitated by that Cisco Expressway federation connection. So as you can see, Expressway is a key, key part of the Cisco technology stack. It's something that brings together all the investments we've made with VoiceMaxx CE with a variety of other Cisco technologies that are hosted in the Cisco cloud, and in some cases hosted in other places.