Jabber via MRA and Anyconnect VPN

[sfrost1]

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.

[Paul Thomas]

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

[Xavier McKinzie]

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).

[amr_saudi99]

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 ..

[ashishsi@cisco.com]

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.