Cisco Jabber VDI

The Cisco Jabber® platform streamlines communications and enhances productivity on many devices, including PCs, Macs, tablets, and smartphones. It unifies presence, instant messaging, video, voice, voice messaging, and conferencing capabilities securely into one client on your desktop.

But what if your organization is implementing virtualization strategies? Now you can use the Cisco Jabber Softphone for VDI (JVDI), formerly known as Virtualization Experience Media Edition (VXME), to deliver the rich, uncompromised user experience of the Cisco Jabber platform to virtualized desktops in addition to your PCs, Macs, tablets, and smartphones.

In virtualized environments, the Cisco Jabber application is deployed in the hosted virtual desktop in the data center, while Cisco JVDI runs on the local thin client. With the Cisco Jabber application running on your hosted virtual desktop, you can see presence status, send an instant message, check voice messages, or collaborate via voice and video calls. Cisco JVDI processes voice and video traffic locally and routes from point to point between clients, bypassing the data center. This feature eliminates the inefficient “hairpin” effect in which messages between two endpoints are routed through the data center, rather than traveling directly from the sender to the receiver. With this optimized architecture, users in virtualized settings benefit from the same uncompromised experience they enjoy with the traditional Cisco Jabber for Windows solution.

Cisco Jabber platform on the virtual desktop:  Rich collaboration that supports the uncompromised user experience of the Cisco Jabber application

Local voice and video processing: Efficient use of local thin-client resources to reduce the use of network bandwidth and data center resources, eliminating the hairpin effect for the ultimate user experience

Cisco Precision Video Engine: High-fidelity wideband audio and business-quality video communications up to high-definition (720p at 30 frames per second [fps]);  Standards-based (H.264) video for interoperability with telepresence endpoints and video conferencing systems

Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP): Secure media encryption

Secure remote access: Secure remote access through native Cisco AnyConnect® Secure Mobility Client

Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApp (published desktop), and VMware View:  Support for latest Citrix and VmWare infrastructure