Business-to-Business Unified Communications

IME CIS-104754

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Learn how Cisco Intercompany Media Engine makes communications among separate companies and organizations as effortless and seamless as it is within an individual company. (4:34 min)

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The Cisco Intercompany Media Engine (IME) gives organizations a revolutionary way to extend their Cisco Unified Communications experience to their business partners or customers delivering feature rich interoperability via boundary-less collaboration as well as cost savings.

This worldwide, peer-to-peer network offers these features:

• Lets partners use calling features that are available between clusters (except extension mobility)
• Learns new routes, through calls to any business partner who participates in the Cisco Intercompany Media Network
• Offers encrypted signaling and media for all Intercompany Media Engine calls between partners
• Provides a high level of security, plus spam blocking, to help prevent mining for callable numbers belonging to your enterprise
• Reduces gateways and overhead, by moving calls from PSTN to direct SIP trunks over the Internet or an extranet