THE STACK

Planning an upgrade for your Cisco Unified Communications environment? Preparing technology budgets for next year? In addition to getting your favorite Cisco UC experts involved for upgrading your systems to the latest release, Cisco has a surprise in store for long-time customers of their UC platform. Recently, Cisco has announced a large selection of IP phone models which will be deprecated with CUCM release 14.0. The silver lining: version 14 is not planned before 2020, so there is time to prepare for this impending event!

Cisco Spark, the app-centric, cloud-based collaboration, and communications suite is being re-branded as Cisco Webex Teams, while WebEx is to be re-branded as Webex Meetings. 

Speaking April 18^th at the Cisco Collaboration Summit 2018 show in Phoenix, AZ., Rowan Trollope, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Applications announced the name change as part of its new Webex portfolio of products. 

Webex will be repositioned as the umbrella name for the company's entire collaboration portfolio consisting of Webex Meetings (formerly WebEx), and Webex Teams (formerly Spark). 

Now before we continue, yes it is Webex, not WebEx, the removal of the capitalized “E” is part of the new look and feel. 

In this article, we will highlight some of the essential aspects of this re-branding including reasons behind the changes. We will also discuss some of the new features and functionalities of both Webex Meetings and Webex Teams.

Update:

Push Notifications are required both for Cisco Jabber for iPhone and iPad clients that connect from within the enterprise network as well as for clients that register to an on-premise deployment via Expressway's Mobile and Remote Access (MRA) feature. 

Although reading long documents and procedures on Cisco.com is always fun (!), we thought we could sum up the configuration of Smart Licensing on a Cisco CSR1000v virtual router in a quick blog post for those of us who simply need to “get things done.” 

Special thank you to Ben Petroff and the Stack8 Managed Services team for their expertise with Cisco Expressway  

Earlier this spring, Cisco had announced a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability affecting CUCM 10.x and 11.x, which we discussed in a previous blog post entitled: Important DoS Vulnerability for CUCM 10.x and 11.x "cisco-sa-20170419-ucm"

Cisco has recently announced that Cisco Expressway and TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) are also affected by a similar DoS vulnerability. Advisory ID “cisco-sa-20170816-vcs” (CVE-2017-6790) explains that an unauthenticated, remote attacker could send excessive SIP traffic to the device and cause a complete DoS condition on the targeted system.