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Which two features does Cisco Unified Border Element provide when Cisco Unified CCE and Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal are used? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. load balancing outbound calls C. normalize SIP messages using SIP profiles. Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) acts as a Session Border Controller, and its two primary roles in a CCE/CVP deployment are load balancing outbound calls (A) across multiple SIP trunks or gateways, and normalizing SIP messages via SIP profiles (C) to ensure interoperability be
Question
Which two features does Cisco Unified Border Element provide when Cisco Unified CCE and Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal are used? (Choose two.)
Options
- Aload balancing outbound calls
- Bsecure communication using flow around mode
- Cnormalize SIP messages using SIP profiles
- DSilent Monitor inbound voice calls
- Erecord calls by forking the media
How the community answered
(34 responses)- A79% (27)
- B6% (2)
- D3% (1)
- E12% (4)
Explanation
Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) acts as a Session Border Controller, and its two primary roles in a CCE/CVP deployment are load balancing outbound calls (A) across multiple SIP trunks or gateways, and normalizing SIP messages via SIP profiles (C) to ensure interoperability between different vendor implementations-both are core, well-documented CUBE functions for contact center architectures.
Why the distractors are wrong:
- B is incorrect because "flow-around mode" is a media-path configuration (media bypasses CUBE), not a security feature; secure communication in CUBE uses TLS/SRTP, not flow-around.
- D is incorrect because Silent Monitor is a supervisor capability provided by CCE itself, not by CUBE.
- E is a tempting distractor because CUBE can fork media for recording in some deployments, but in the CCE/CVP context this function is handled by dedicated recording platforms (e.g., Cisco MediaSense), not CUBE's primary role.
Memory tip: Think of CUBE as the "Border Traffic Cop" - it Loads-balances calls across routes and Normalizes SIP dialects so everyone speaks the same language. LN = Load + Normalize = A + C.
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