Supported Platforms


Note


Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V) is no longer supported from Cisco IOS XE Bengaluru 17.4.1a onwards. If you are using CSR 1000V, you have to upgrade to Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software (Catalyst 8000V). For End-of-Life information on CSR 1000V, see End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Select Cisco CSR 1000v Licenses.


Cisco Unified Border Element is supported on various platforms running on Cisco IOS Software Releases and Cisco IOS XE Software Releases.


Note


For information on migrating from existing Cisco IOS XE 3S releases to the Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.3 release, see Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.3 Migration Guide for Access and Edge Routers


The following table provides information on Cisco router platform support for Cisco Unified Border Element:

Cisco Router Platforms

Cisco Router Models

Cisco IOS Software Releases

Cisco Integrated Services Generation 2 Routers (ISR G2)

Cisco 2900 Series Integrated Services Routers

Cisco 3900 Series Integrated Services Routers

Cisco IOS 12 M and T

Cisco IOS 15 M and T 1

Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR G3)

Cisco 4321 Integrated Services Routers

Cisco 4331 Integrated Services Routers

Cisco 4351 Integrated Services Routers

Cisco 4431 Integrated Services Routers

Cisco 4451 Integrated Services Routers

Cisco IOS XE 3S

Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.3.1 onwards 2

Cisco 4461 Integrated Services Routers

Cisco IOS XE Amsterdam 17.2.1r onwards

Cisco 1000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR)

Cisco 1100 Integrated Services Router models ISR1100 4G/6G support CUBE features when running on IOS XE

Cisco IOS XE Gibraltar 16.12.1a onwards

Cisco Aggregated Services Routers (ASR)

Cisco ASR1001-X Aggregated Services Routers

Cisco ASR1002-X Aggregated Services Routers

Cisco ASR1004 Aggregated Services Routers with RP2

Cisco ASR1006 Aggregated Services Routers with RP2 and ESP40

Cisco IOS XE 3S

Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.3.1 onwards

Cisco ASR1006-X Aggregated Services Routers with RP2 and ESP40

Cisco IOS XE Everest 16.6.1 onwards

Cisco ASR1006-X Aggregated Services Routers with RP3 and ESP40/ESP100

Cisco IOS XE Everest 16.6.1 onwards

Cisco ASR1006-X Aggregated Services Routers with RP3 and ESP100X

Cisco IOS XE Amsterdam 17.3.2 onwards

Cisco Cloud Services Routers (CSR)

Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V series

Cisco IOS XE 3.15 onwards

Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.3.1 onwards

Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software (Catalyst 8000V)

Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software (Catalyst 8000V)

Cisco IOS XE Bengaluru 17.4.1a onwards

Cisco 8300 Catalyst Edge Series Platforms

C8300-1N1S-6T

C8300-1N1S-4T2X

C8300-2N2S-6T

C8300-2N2S-4T2X

Cisco IOS XE Amsterdam 17.3.2

Cisco 8200 Catalyst Edge Series Platform

C8200-1N-4T

Cisco IOS XE Bengaluru 17.4.1a

Cisco 8200L Catalyst Edge Series Platform

C8200L-1N-4T

Cisco IOS XE Bengaluru 17.5.1a
1 Support for CUBE on Cisco 2900 Series Integrated Services Routers and Cisco 3900 Series Integrated Services Routers are only up to release 15.7 M.
2

All CUBE features from release 11.5.0 (Cisco IOS XE Release 3.17) and features introduced in CUBE 11.5.1 on Cisco Integrated Services Generation 2 Routers (ISR G2) are included in CUBE release 11.5.2 for the Cisco IOS XE based platforms from Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.3.1 onwards.

Feature Comparison on Supported Platforms

The following table provides high level details of CUBE features supported on different platforms.


Note


Collaboration feature support on Cisco ISR 4000 Series Routers is available from Cisco IOS XE Release 3.13.1S onwards. Cisco Cloud Services Routers 1000V Series support is available from Cisco IOS XE Release 3.15S onwards.
Table 1. Feature Comparisons for Supported Platforms

Features

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers

Cisco ISR G2 Series Routers

Cisco ISR 4000 Series Routers

Cisco ISR 1000 Series Routers

High Availability Implementation

Redundancy Group Infrastructure

Hot Standby Protocol (HSRP) Based

Redundancy Group Infrastructure

No

Media Forking

Yes (Cisco IOS XE Release 3.8S onwards)

Yes (Cisco IOS Relase 15.2 (1) T onwards

Yes (Cisco IOS XE Release 3.10S onwards)

No

DSP Card Type

SPA-DSP

PVDM2/PVDM3

PVDM4

SM-X-PVDM

No

Transcoder registered to CUCM

No

Yes (Exists via SCCP)

Yes (Exists via SCCP - Cisco IOS XE Release 3.11S onwards)

No

Transcoder—LTI

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Cisco UC Gateway Services API

Yes (Cisco IOS XE Release 3.8S onwards)

Yes (Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)T onwards

Yes

Yes

Noise Reduction and ASP

Yes

Yes (Cisco IOS Release 15.2(3)T onwards)

Yes

No

Call Progress Analysis

Yes

(Cisco IOS XE Release 3.9S onwards ; Recommended - Cisco IOS XE Release 3.15S)

Yes

Cisco IOS Release 15.3(2)T onwards; Recommended -Cisco IOS Release 15.5(2)T onwards)

Yes

Recommended - Cisco IOS XE Release 3.15S

No

SRTP-RTP Interworking

Yes - No DSP resources required

(Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7S onwards)

Yes - DSP resources required

(Cisco IOS Release 12.4(22)YB onwards)

Yes - No DSP resources required

Cisco IOS XE Release 3.12S onwards

Yes - No DSP resources required

CUBE for SP Managed and Hosted Services

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Unified SRST colocation with CUBE

Not supported

SCCP SRST is supported

SIP SRST is not supported

Yes (Cisco IOS XE Fuji 16.7.1 Release onwards)

Yes. From Cisco IOS XE Bengaluru 17.5.1a

IPv6

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Table 2. Feature Comparisons for Supported Platforms (Contd...)

Features

Cisco CSR 1000V Series Routers

Cisco 8000V Catalyst Series Edge Platforms

Cisco 8300 Catalyst Edge Series Platforms

Cisco 8200 Catalyst Edge Series Platforms

Cisco 8200L Catalyst Edge Series Platforms

HA Implementation

RG Infrastructure

RG Infrastructure

RG Infrastructure

RG Infrastructure

RG Infrastructure

Media Forking

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

DSP Card Type

No

No

NIM-PVDM

SM-X-PVDM

NIM-PVDM

SM-X-PVDM

NIM-PVDM

SM-X-PVDM

Transcoder registered to CUCM

No

No

Yes (via SCCP)

Yes (via SCCP)

Yes (via SCCP)

Transcoder—LTI

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Cisco UC Gateway Services API

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Noise Reduction & ASP

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Call Progress Analysis

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

SRTP-RTP Interworking

Yes - No DSP resources required

(Cisco IOS XE Release 3.15S onwards)

Yes - No DSP resources required

Yes - No DSP resources required

Yes - No DSP resources required

Yes - No DSP resources required

CUBE for SP Managed and Hosted Services

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Unified SRST colocation with CUBE

Not supported

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

IPv6

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes


Note


For more information on Unified SRST and Unified Border Element Co-location, see Unified SRST and Unified Border Element Co-location.

Co-location of Cisco Unified Border Element - High Availability (HA) with Unified SRST is not supported.