Which three features does Cisco Unified Border Element provide when Cisco Unified CCE and Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal are used? (Choose three.)

Question

Options

• ASilent Monitor inbound voice calls
• Bsecure communication using flow around mode
• CNAT for address hiding
• Dnormalize SIP messages using SIP profiles
• Erecord calls by forking the media using build-in-bridge
• Fdemarcation point between networks

• A
  6% (2)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  77% (27)
• E
  14% (5)

Explanation

Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) acts as a network boundary device between enterprise and service provider domains, which is why C, D, and F are correct. It provides NAT for address hiding (C) to protect internal IP topology from external exposure, SIP message normalization via SIP profiles (D) to ensure interoperability across different vendor implementations, and serves as the demarcation point between networks (F) - its very definition as a "border element."

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Silent Monitor): Silent monitoring is a contact center supervisor feature delivered by Cisco Finesse/Unified CCE, not CUBE.
• B (flow-around mode for secure comms): Flow-around mode actually bypasses CUBE for media - the opposite of providing security. Secure media uses SRTP/TLS, not flow-around.
• E (call recording via built-in bridge): Built-in bridge (BiB) is a feature of Cisco IP phones, not CUBE. CUBE can fork media, but BiB recording belongs to the phone/MediaSense layer.

Memory tip: Spell out CUBE's role - Control the boundary, Unify SIP dialects (normalize), Block address leakage (NAT), Establish the demarcation. Anything that sounds like a contact center supervisor tool (monitoring, recording) lives above CUBE in the stack, not in the border element itself.

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