New Training: Cisco Collaboration: Configure Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE)

In this 10-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Lalo Nunez reviews and configures Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE). Watch this new Cisco training.

Learn Cisco with one of these courses:

• Cisco CCNP Collaboration Core

• Cisco IOS XE Gateway and Media Resources

This training includes:

• 10 videos

• 1.4 hours of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• Intro: Configure Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE)

• CUBE Overview

• CUBE Media Flow

• CUBE Configuration

• CUBE Dial Peers and Codecs

• CUCM SIP Trunk to CUBE

• CUBE Placing test phone calls

• CUBE Enhanced Dial Peers

• CUBE SIP Profiles

• Registration with ITSP

What is The Cisco Unified Border Element?

It's becoming more and more common for telephony systems to use a VoIP model from end to end today. Because of that, many businesses are choosing to use internet telephony service providers instead of traditional telephone companies. Many businesses have already been using VoIP systems within their business walls for years, though. Additional tools are needed to bridge the internal VoIP system with external internet-powered telephony services. The Cisco Unified Border Element is one of the tools that bridge those VoIP networks.

Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) extends functionality when compared to other conventional border controllers. For example, CUBE is capable of terminating both the original signaling (H.323 and SIP) as well as RTP and RTCP. It should be noted that CUBE functionality is only implemented on devices with a special IOS feature set.

For more information on what CUBE can offer over other conventional session border controllers. Take a look at Cisco's documentation page for CUBE.