[cisco-voip] Restricted vs Unrestricted CUCM Versions

[Mike King]

Here's a analogy for you.

Callmanager 7.1.5 (and 8.5) will now have the equivalent of a K9 release.




On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM, STEVEN CASPER <SCASPER at mtb.com> wrote:

>  From Ryan's previous post:
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> http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/rel_notes/7_1_5/cucm-rel_notes-715.html#wp1768767
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>   Unrestricted Export Support
>
> The restricted US export classification on Cisco Unified CM meant that
> governmental and military customers in many countries could not employ
> Unified CM in their networks.
>
> In addition to the delay inherent in obtaining export licenses, products
> classified as restricted by the Department of Commerce (DoC) carry a
> requirement to allow US government representatives to demand on-site
> inspections at any time to confirm that the product is being used in
> accordance with its licensed purpose. This post-shipment verification (PSV)
> is unacceptable to many customers.
>
> Additionally, some foreign countries maintain import restrictions which
> prohibited Unified CM from being available to customers in those countries.
> Both US export and foreign import issues stem from Unified CM support for
> strong encryption of signaling and media.
>
> Unrestricted Classification
>
> Because Cisco has obtained an unrestricted classification from the DoC for
> a version of Unified CM, beginning with Unified CM 7.1(5), both restricted
> and unrestricted versions of Unified CM will be released in parallel.
>
> Limitations
>
> Signaling and media encryption is permanently disabled in the unrestricted
> version, but remains unchanged in the restricted version.
>
> Migration from the unrestricted version to the restricted version is not
> supported.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *Note *No impact exists to other security features such as HTTP(s), SSH,
> password encryption and authentication (for example, SIP digest
> authentication), mechanisms used by unrestricted Unified CM clients such as
> JTAPI, TSP, encryption of SNMP traffic, encryption of data related to
> database that is done by using IPSEC and IMS on the server side.
>
> The communication between CTL client and provider remains encrypted.
>
>
> >>> "Beck, Christopher" <CBeck at usg.com> 4/26/2010 9:49 AM >>>
>
> Can someone  define what an “unrestricted” version is?
>
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>
> Thanks!!!
>
>
>
>
>
> -Chris
>
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