topic Re: Jabber via MRA and Anyconnect VPN in Collaboration Applications

Jabber via MRA and Anyconnect VPN

sfrost1 — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 03:57:03 GMT

Hi Folks,

Quick Question from our pre-sales team.

Can a company use Jabber via MRA (mobile users) as well as Jabber via Anyconnect VPN (fixed clients) *together*

eg.

Company A

User 1 wants to use Jabber softphone on iphone so uses MRA to connect to corporate network

User 2 has Jabber client on his laptop and so wishes to use VPN to connect to corporate network

Can both these users within company A use the separate methods of connecting and communicating concurrently?

Cheers, Steve.

Re: Jabber via MRA and Anyconnect VPN

Paul Thomas — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:03:25 GMT

Steve, I assume yes only because of the support for Jabber Guest accounts.....which definitely don't have VPN access.

Re: Jabber via MRA and Anyconnect VPN

Xavier McKinzie — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 04:44:02 GMT

Jabber clients using MRA will work in an environment with AnyConnect VPN. MRA will allow user 1 to use collaboration infrastructure without VPN, but he/she may need VPN for other use cases like network drives and such.

If user 2 connects to VPN first, the auto lookup steps that DNS take will recognize the client as on premises instead of using Expressways (if AnyConnect gives them local access to UCM).

Re: Jabber via MRA and Anyconnect VPN

amr_saudi99 — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:32:48 GMT

as Xavier said .. the iPhone will use the MRA to connect and the laptop will be working as it's on-premises device because it's connected thro VPN ..

Re: Jabber via MRA and Anyconnect VPN

ashishsi@cisco.com — Wed, 15 May 2024 05:55:46 GMT

Yes, User-1 can connect over MRA and User-2 can connect using the Anyconnect VPN, Another thing in case user-2 is not connected with VPN still user-2 can connect ovr MRA using his desktop.