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Data Sheet

Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server

Expressway

Extending Video Communications Securely Beyond the Enterprise

Product Overview

The Cisco TelePresence

Video Communication Server Expressway (Cisco VCS Expressway) deployed with the

Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (Cisco VCS) enables smooth video communications easily and

securely outside the enterprise (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Expressway Firewall Traversal

The Cisco VCS Expressway enables business-to-business video collaboration, improves the productivity of

remote and home-based workers, and enables service providers to provide video communications to customers.

The application performs securely through standards-based and secure firewall traversal for all Session Initiation

Protocol (SIP) and H.323 devices. As a result, organizations benefit from increased employee productivity and

enhanced communication with partners and customers.

The Cisco VCS Expressway uses an intelligent framework that allows endpoints behind firewalls to discover paths

through which they can pass media, verify peer-to-peer connectivity through each of these paths, and then select

the optimum media connection path, eliminating the need to reconfigure enterprise firewalls.

The Cisco VCS Expressway is built for high reliability and scalability, supporting multivendor firewalls, and it can

traverse any number of firewalls regardless of SIP or H.323 protocol.

Administrators have a choice of implementing the Cisco VCS Expressway either as an appliance or as a

virtualized application on VMware or similar virtual environments, with additional support for Cisco Unified

Computing System

™

(Cisco UCS

™

) platforms.

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