Bridging and Extending Communications Networks

Save money, streamline services aggregation, and extend collaboration applications with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition. The unique combination of Session Management Edition and Cisco Unified Border Element extends the communications network, connecting users, applications, and systems globally.

Features and Capabilities

A Better Evolutionary Path

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition helps enterprises create a centralized architecture to more easily and efficiently manage and evolve their networks as collaboration needs change. Cisco Session Management helps enterprises: 

• Save:  Lower costs and improve efficiency by using SIP trunking to interconnect networks using Cisco Unified Border Element
• Simplify: Reduce complexity by aggregating third-party PBXs, and easing migration to an all-IP environment.
• Extend: Deploy collaboration applications at the network core and extend them to users - even those on third-party PBXs

Cisco Session Management is a service available on its enterprise-class IP call processing system, Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Because they use the same interfaces and architecture, Cisco Session Management can be deployed as a separate architectural layer or enabled in an existing Cisco Unified Communications Manager cluster for smaller environments.  Benefits include:

• Easier deployment without forced architectural change
• Investment protection, making it easy to repurpose Cisco clusters as needs change 
• Flexibility to evolve your network at your pace  through industry-leading interoperability
• Architectural choice and migration control, for an intelligent path to SIP trunking
• All the features and benefits of Cisco Unified Communications Manager for a superior collaborative experience

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