[cisco-voip] softphone from data to voice domain

[Ahmed -Y]

Hi Folks,

Anybody can comment please.

Regards


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Ahmed -Y <yhameed81 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks.
>
>
> I've gone through plenty of cube documentation but didn't figure out if
> SIP endpoint can terminate directly on CUBE. Most of docs discuss about sip
> trunks between cube and cube/cucm/pstn etc. I read that cube support B2BUA
> that mean remote sip device will terminate connect on cube and then cube
> will initiate a separate session to internal destination sip server like
> cucm using its own IP address as source and media will also flow in same
> fashion as i draw below. As i mentioned i am not sure if cube can terminate
> softphone like this. The purpose is to hide the internal topology. I don't
> want to inject data routes in voice domain and vice versa.
>
> softphone -----------------cube --------------- cucm
>
> cisco ASA can act as proxy phone but question is can it hide the topology?
>
> An other solution i am just thinking of but i am not sure if this is
> possible and practical. Can you please confirm that if cisco latest
> softclient like jabber or movi have built-in vpn capability? I am thinking
> if i setup some asa firewalls on border of voice domain. when user open
> jabber or movi application, it automatically establish vpn with these
> border firewalls and get dynamic ip address from firewall from voice ip
> ranges. In otherwords the softphone will be part of voice domain after vpn
> is established. whats your thoughts
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Brian Meade (brmeade) <brmeade at cisco.com>wrote:
>
>>  I’ve done this before with Acme/Sipera SBCs with all SIP endpoints.
>> You may be able to do this with CUBE as well (never set it up before using
>> CUBE).  Not really going to work for SCCP endpoints unless you use Phone
>> Proxy which only is supported in CUCM 7.x and below.  You might just be
>> able to handle it using an ASA and Anyconnect so everyone has to VPN in
>> first.
>>
>>
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On
>> Behalf Of *Ahmed -Y
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 06, 2013 9:52 PM
>> *To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>> *Subject:* [cisco-voip] softphone from data to voice domain
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> We have a big voice domain and hundreds of deskphone share the same
>> domain and registers with shared UC infrastructure (cucm cluster, presence,
>> unity etc).
>>
>> Currently not many users using softphone but lots of users requesting
>> this facility. Since softphones are in data domain and i believe its not a
>> good  practice to mix data with voice so I am thinking to place some kind
>> of gateway in the between data and voice that not phone protect voice
>> domain from data but also hide the topology. May be Cisco ASA as phone
>> proxy but i am not sure if it is practical to use them for thousands of
>> softphones. Moreover i doubt if ASA can provide topology hiding when user
>> can have CIPC, jabber or movi.
>>
>> I read about CUBE but i am still confused if cube really fit in my
>> situation and purpose i want to achieve.
>>
>> Please share your thought. In short i want to know how service providers
>> (provides UC shared services) keep voice and data separate while provide
>> the softphone facility to user.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>
>
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