[] The rise of Video conferencing as a preferred means of collaboration advocates for continuous conversations on the issue of security. This entry seeks to contribute to that discussion.
Hope you find this useful.
Hello and welcome to this entry on Jabber guest. ‘Cisco Jabber Guest is a [Web-Based ] consumer-to-business (C2B) solution that extends the reach of a company’s internal enterprise telephony to people outside of the corporate firewall’ via the aid of a link that is posted or published on the company website. Thus, without any specialised hardware, jabber guest turns a regular webpage into a video/collaborative end-point at the moment that a consumer clicks on the web-based link/hyper-link. A customer or client is now able to establish high-definition video communication with someone stationed within the internal network or even at a remote location by using a simple browser!
Jabber guest links/hyperlinks can also be embedded into documents and custom apps.
Please view the link below for a quick yet very detailed introduction.
The video Demonstration below is part one of two parts.
1) This part (part one) will focus on deploying a Jabber guest cluster.
2) And part two will focus on integrating the jabber guest cluster with an Expressway cluster
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Today’s outline.
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1) Today I will be deploying Cisco Jabber guest in a cluster of three servers.
3) Then I will configure sip trunks between jabber guest and CUCM
4) After configuring the Jabber guest links on the Jabber guest server, I will then advertise/publish the links to a website.
5) I will then browse to the webpage and click on the link (that was published in step 4) in order to establish a video call between the web-based caller (i.e me) and the internal called device (jabber for windows soft-phone)
The result will be a call between a browser and a jabber for windows client. Enjoy!
Thanks for visiting
Regards!
Hint: Somewhere around 19 min into the recording I mentioned ‘server signing authority’ instead of ‘Certificate signing authority’. Please process the information accordingly.
The promise of Mobile and remote access technology is that , using the Expressway-C and E servers, external devices are able to register to the corporate network and gain access to services which are located within the corporate LAN without need for a VPN. Internal services like voice-mail, directory, audio- video calls, on-premises instant message and presence information become transparently and seamlessly available to a mobile and remote devices as they move in and out of the network with no extra user education or involvement.
In the first half this video demonstration, I will:
i) Walk through what we already have configured on the corporate LAN.
In the second half, :
i) I will first of all install the Expressway-C and establish communication between Expressway-C with the internal servers like CUCM and IM&P.
ii) Then the expressway-C is connected to the Expressway-E via a traversal zone. The Expressway-E sits in the DMZ. The traversal zone is the link between the internal and external network.
iii) Finally, a jabber client is registered to the network via the Expressway-E. The jabber client is able to access internal services through the aid of the traversal zone that exist between the Expressway-E server that is on the outside or DMZ of the network and the Expressway-C server which is inside the network. .
Enjoy
* Hint: Please watch this Video in HD and full-screen mode or the Video may not be clear.
Not too long ago I hit a brick wall while I was configuring the ‘ Recording’ feature of Cisco’s On-Premises Webex Meeting Server . The problem was that the webex meeting server was saying that it could not find my Network file system. The recording feature actually requires that a Network File System be set-up before users are allowed to record their meetings. I checked on Cisco’s support site and found out that I was not the only one to have encountered this problem. Anyway, since I did not find a solution at Cisco.com, I decided to recreate my solution here so that the next person that encounters this problem will have a quicker solution than I had.
Hope this post is helpful to everyone and maybe even someone who’s blog has been useful to me too.
cheers
Maxwell
The Voice Initiate 