Offer users outside your firewall simple, highly secure access to all collaboration workloads, including video, voice, content, IM, and presence. Collaborate with people who are on third-party systems and endpoints or in other companies. Help teleworkers and Cisco Jabber mobile users work more effectively on their device of choice. Cisco Expressway allows you to do all this and more.
Product Specifications for Virtualized Environments
Cisco Expressway can be deployed virtually or as an appliance. Table 2 lists the Cisco Expressway virtualized application specifications.
Table 2. Cisco Expressway Virtualized Application Specifications
| Product Feature | Product Specification | ||
| Virtualized Application Specifications | |||
| Servers for virtual environment | ● Cisco UCS® B-Series Blade Servers or C-Series Rack Servers or third-party servers that meet the minimum requirements
● VMware vSphere or vCenter server running VMware ESXi, which includes Cisco UCS E-Series Servers on Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) For full details of host requirements, refer to the Cisco Expressway Series virtual machine deployment guide. |
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| Virtual Machine Host Requirements | Small Deployment (For Cisco BE6000 Platform) | Medium-Size Deployment (Typical Installation) | Large Deployment (Performance and Scalability) |
| vCPU | 2 core | 2 core | 8 core |
| Reserved CPU resource | 3600 MHz (2 x 1.8 GHz) | 4800 MHz (2 x 2.4 GHz) | 25600 MHz (8 x 3.20 GHz) |
| Reserved RAM | 4 GB | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| Disk space | 132 GB | 132 GB | 132 GB |
| Network interface card | 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | 10 Gbps |
Product Specifications When Deployed as an Appliance
Cisco Expressway can also be deployed as an appliance on the Cisco Expressway CE1100 appliance. Table 3 shows the features and benefits of these appliance, Table 4 lists the specifications, and Table 5 provides standards compliance information.
Table 3. Appliance Features and Benefits
| Cisco Expressway CE1100 Appliance Features | Benefits |
| 10-Gbps unified network fabric | ● Low-latency, lossless, 10-Gbps Ethernet and industry-standard Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and native Fibre Channel fabric
● Wire-once deployment model in which changing I/O configurations no longer means installing adapters and re-cabling racks and switches ● Fewer interface cards, cables, and upstream network ports to purchase, power, configure, and maintain |
| Redundant fans and power supplies | ● Dual-redundant fans and hot-swappable, redundant power supplies for enterprise-class reliability and uptime
● Power efficiency through Cisco Common Form-Factor Platinum power supplies (450W and 650W) |
| Integrated dual-port Gigabit Ethernet | ● Outstanding network I/O performance and increased network efficiency and flexibility
● Increased network availability when configured in failover configurations |
| Trusted Platform Module (TPM) | ● TPM is a chip (microcontroller) that can securely store artifacts used to authenticate the platform (server). These artifacts can include passwords, certificates, or encryption keys
● TPM can also be used to store platform measurements that help ensure that the platform remains trustworthy, helping ensure authentication and authorization |
| Tool-free access | ● Tool-free access to all serviceable items, and color-coded indicators to guide users to hot-pluggable and serviceable items |
Table 4. Product Specifications for the Cisco Expressway CE1100 Appliance
| Item | Platform Specification |
| Processors | 2 Intel® 3.50 GHz Xeon® processors (E5-2637 v3/135W 4C/15MB Cache/DDR4 2133MHz) |
| Memory | 32GB (2 X 16GB DDR4-2133-MHz RDIMM/PC4-17000/dual rank/x4/1.2v) |
| Network Interfaces | Intel X520 dual-port 10-Gb Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+) adapter |
| RAID Card | Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid Controller and Cisco 12Gbps SAS 1GB FBWC Cache module (Raid 1) |
| Hard drives | Two 1-TB SAS 7.2K rpm 3.5-inch HDD with hot plug; drive sled mounted |
| Internal Recovery Partition (IRP) | ● 32GB SD Card |
| Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) | ● Web user-interface for server management; remote keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM); virtual media; and administration.
● Virtual media support for remote CD and DVD drives as if local. ● Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0 support for out-of-band management through third-party enterprise management systems. ● Command-line interface (CLI) for server management. ● Provides UCS visibility and control to management ecosystem partners using a comprehensive XML API |
| Front-panel connector | One KVM console connector (supplies 2 USB, 1 VGA, and 1 serial connector). |
| Front-panel locator LED | Indicator to help direct administrators to specific servers in large data center environments |
| Additional rear connectors | Additional interfaces including a VGA video port, 2 USB 3.0 ports, an RJ45 serial port, 1 Gigabit Ethernet management port, and dual 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports |
| Physical dimensions (H x W x D) | 1 rack unit (1RU): 1.7 x 16.9 x 28.5 in. (4.32 x 43 x 72.4 cm) |
| Temperature: Operating | 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C) (operating, sea level, no fan fail, no CPU throttling, turbo mode) |
| Temperature: Nonoperating | -40 to 158°F (-40 to 70°C) |
| Humidity: Operating | 10% to 90% noncondensing |
| Humidity Nonoperating | 5% to 93% noncondensing |
| Altitude: Operating | 0 to 10,000 ft (0 to 3000m); maximum ambient temperature decreases by 1°C per 300m) |
| Altitude: Nonoperating | 0 to 40,000 ft (12,000m) |
Table 5. Regulatory Standards Compliance: Safety and EMC for the Cisco Expressway CE1100 Appliance
| Specification | Description |
| Safety | ● UL 60950-1 No. 21CFR1040 Second Edition
● CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1 Second Edition ● IEC 60950-1 Second Edition ● EN 60950-1 Second Edition ● IEC 60950-1 Second Edition ● AS/NZS 60950-1 ● GB4943 2001 |
| EMC: Emissions | ● 47CFR Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
● AS/NZS CISPR22 Class A ● CISPR2 2 Class A ● EN55022 Class A ● ICES003 Class A ● VCCI Class A ● EN61000-3-2 ● EN61000-3-3 ● KN22 Class A ● CNS13438 Class A |
| EMC: Immunity | ● EN55024
● CISPR24 ● EN300386 ● KN24 |
Licensing Information
Cisco Expressway Series virtual application software is available at no additional charge to customers who have a license and valid support contract for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 9.1.2 or later or for Cisco HCS 9.2.1 or later. Standard and Professional Edition Cisco UWL or Enhanced and Enhanced Plus Cisco UCL agreements support mobile and remote access for Cisco Jabber unified communications clients; Cisco TelePresence System EX Series, Cisco TelePresence MX and SX Series, and Cisco TelePresence Integrator C endpoints; and Cisco DX Series endpoints. Cisco HCS Foundation and Standard license bundles offer similar support for Cisco HCS deployments.
Each concurrent call session terminating on a system not using Cisco Unified Communications Manager or Cisco HCS (for example, business-to-business calls and Cisco Jabber Guests) requires a Cisco Expressway Rich Media Session license. In addition, each concurrent call requiring interworking also requires a Cisco Expressway Rich Media Session license. Examples of such calls include H.323-to-SIP interworked calls and H.264 SVC-to-H.264 AVC calls.
Ordering Information
To order Cisco Expressway, visit the Cisco Ordering homepage and refer to Table 6.
Table 6. Ordering Information for Cisco Expressway
| Product Name | Part Number |
| Cisco Expressway Series Virtualized Applications | |
| Cisco Expressway-C Virtual Edition | EXPWY-VE-C-K9 |
| Cisco Expressway-E Virtual Edition | EXPWY-VE-E-K9 |
| Cisco Expressway-C CE1100 Appliance | EXPWY-C-BDL-K9 |
| Cisco Expressway-E CE1100 Appliance | EXPWY-E-BDL-K9 |
| Ordering Options for Cisco Expressway Series | |
| Cisco Expressway Rich Media Session License
(Required for concurrent calls to/from any endpoint or application not registered to Cisco Unified Communications Manager. For example, business-to-business calls, Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms, Cisco Jabber Guest, and interworked calls, for example, H.323 to SIP, H.264 AVC to H.264 SVC) |
LIC-EXP-RMS |
| Enhanced Microsoft Collaboration key for Cisco Expressway
(Required to enable Microsoft Lync Gateway functionality) |
LIC-EXP-MSFT |
Cisco Expressway is designed specifically for comprehensive collaboration services provided through Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Business Edition, or Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS). It provides established firewall-traversal technology and helps redefine traditional enterprise collaboration boundaries, supporting our vision of any-to-any collaboration.
Expressway can enable the following use cases:
As its primary features and benefits, Cisco Expressway: