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Extend the rich collaboration experience of Cisco Webex for Windows to your virtualized environments by enabling intelligent processing of real-time voice and video on your local devices.
Cisco® Webex is a leading technology in the team collaboration market, combining the core elements of team collaboration—calling, messsaging, and meeting—with the inclusion of intelligence and context. Get access to screensharing, group messaging, cross-collaboration tools and app integrations, all in one app.
Is your organization implementing virtualization strategies? Now you can use Webex®for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (WVDI) to deliver the rich, uncompromised user experience of the Webex platform to virtualized desktops in addition to your PCs, Macs, tablets, and smartphones.
How it works
In virtualized environments, the Webex™ application is deployed in the hosted virtual desktop in the data center, while Webex VDI Client runs on the local thin client. With the Webex application running on your hosted virtual desktop, you can see presence status, send an instant message, check voice messages, or collaborate via voice and video calls. Webex VDI Client processes voice and video traffic locally and routes from point to point between clients, bypassing the data center. This feature eliminates the inefficient “hairpin” effect in which messages between two endpoints are routed through the data center, rather than traveling directly from the sender to the receiver. With this optimized architecture, users in virtualized settings benefit from the same uncompromised experience they enjoy with the traditional Webex for Windows solution.
Table 1 lists the features and benefits of Webex VDI.
Table 1. Features and benefits
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Webex platform on the virtual desktop |
● Rich collaboration that supports the uncompromised user experience of the Webex application
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| Local voice and video processing |
● Efficient use of local thin-client resources to reduce the use of network bandwidth and data center resources, eliminating the hairpin effect for the ultimate user experience
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| Cisco Precision Video Engine |
● High-fidelity wideband audio and business-quality video communications up to high definition (720p at 30 frames per second [fps])
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| Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) |
● Secure media encryption
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| Secure remote access |
● Secure remote access through native Cisco AnyConnect
® Secure Mobility Client
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| Citrix virtual apps and desktops and VMWare Horizon |
● Support for the latest Citrix and VMware infrastructure on the premises
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| Webex desktop share |
● Support for desktop share of the thin client
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| Collaboration Edge |
● Cisco Mobile and Remote Access (MRA) provides a secure connection for Webex application traffic without having to connect to the corporate network over a VPN. MRA allows WVDI clients that are outside the enterprise to use instant messaging and presence services, make voice and video calls, search the corporate directory, share content, launch a web conference, and use visual voicemail
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| Virtual desktop on cloud |
● Support for the latest Citrix Cloud and Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop deployments
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| Rich thin-client support |
● Support for Windows, HP ThinPro, Unicon eLux, Ubuntu, and iGelOS as the operation system of the thin client or thick client
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System requirements for the Webex application with the Webex VDI client are outlined within the Deployment Guide for Cisco Webex for VDI on cisco.com at: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cloudCollaboration/wbxt/vdi/wbx-teams-vdi-deployment-guide/wbx-teams-vdi-deployment-wbx-calling-EFT_chapter_01.html#id_127342.
Note: Feature gaps against Webex windows are listed under https://help.webex.com/en-us/dyitdcb/Webex-Teams-VDI-Feature-Support.
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For more information about Webex for VDI, visit:
● https://help.webex.com/en-us/dyitdcb/Webex-Teams-VDI-Feature-Support