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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
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Configuring Cisco Intercompany Media
Engine Proxy
This chapter describes how to configure the adaptive security appliance for Cisco Intercompany Media
Engine Proxy.
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Information About Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Proxy, page 1-1
• Licensing for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine, page 1-8
• Guidelines and Limitations, page 1-9
• Configuring Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Proxy, page 1-11
• Troubleshooting Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Proxy, page 1-27
• Feature History for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Proxy, page 1-27
Information About Cisco Intercompany Media Engine
Proxy
This section includes the following topics:
• Features of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Proxy, page 1-1
• How the UC-IME Works with the PSTN and the Internet, page 1-2
• Tickets and Passwords, page 1-3
• Call Fallback to the PSTN, page 1-5
• Architecture and Deployment Scenarios for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine, page 1-5
Features of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Proxy
Cisco Intercompany Media Engine enables companies to interconnect on-demand, over the Internet with
advanced features made available by VoIP technologies. Cisco Intercompany Media Engine allows for
business-to-business federation between Cisco Unified Communications Manager clusters in different
enterprises by utilizing peer-to-peer, security, and SIP protocols to create dynamic SIP trunks between
businesses. A collection of enterprises work together to end up looking like one large business with
inter-cluster trunks between them.