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Cisco Unified Border Element on Cisco ASR 1000

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Learn about the features and specifications of the Cisco Unified Border Element on Cisco ASR 1000 (3:39 min.)

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The Cisco Unified Border Element (Enterprise Edition) is Cisco´s enterprise-focused session border controller. A session border controller provides essential capabilities required by today´s IP networks, including:

• Session management
• Security
• Interworking
• Demarcation

Highlights of the Cisco Unified Border Element (Enterprise Edition) functionality include:

• Exceptional scalability, with each chassis able to scale to 15,000 sessions
• Extensive support for digital signaling processors (DSPs) in the platform, for complex media manipulation
• Box-to-box and in-box redundancy, allowing calls to continue during unscheduled outages

This session border controller is an important part of Cisco end-to- end technologies, including: Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition, to provide end to end solutions

• Cisco Session Advertisement Framework (SAF)
• Cisco Intercompany Media Engine (IME)
• Cisco TelePresence business-to-business calls

The Cisco Unified Border Element is integrated into Cisco IOS Software and is available on the following platforms:

• Cisco 2800 and 2900 Series Integrated Services Routers
• Cisco 3800 and 3900 Series Integrated Services Routers
• Cisco ASR 1000 Series routers